Ardern’s record

sir – Kate Andrews (Comment, January 20) says Jacinda Ardern’s handling of Covid-19 turned the New Zealand economy into a “basket case”.

She might consider the fact that Britain’s economy is currently paralysed by strikes – and its price for “opening up” was many more Covid deaths. I’d rather be living in a basket case than dead in a booming economy. C Brian Smith

Wellington, New Zealand