More double standards

YOU report (“Payout for Rutman over Patel bully row”, The Herald, March 5) that Home Office chief Sir Philip Rutman has accepted a substantial sum (believed to be £340,000 plus legal expenses) after launching legal action against the Home Secretary Priti Patel. She was found to have broken the ministerial code.

I am unreliably informed that Ruth Davidson, Douglas Ross and, of course, Margaret Mitchell (oh, please, let us have more of Margaret Mitchell’s questioning) have demanded that the Home Secretary faces an eight-hour Parliamentary inquiry.

Whilst we are waiting for this to happen, we can enjoy the fury of some of your regular correspondents that Nicola Sturgeon calmly and convincingly answered the committee’s questions. Dr Gerald Edwards (Letters, March 5) says that she was shown to be fallible, apparently not a good thing. Thank heavens for the infallibility of the Prime Minister. On the same page, Richard Allison fulminates that “not one single person in government or the Civil Service” has paid any price whatsoever. I presume he had the illegal actions of Matt Hancock’s contracts in mind? And the EU is looking to take action against the UK Government for breaking an international treaty.

All these are facts. Not speculation.

Hamish Mcpherson, Giffnock.