Simple minds?

Nicola Sturgeon says “Scottish election results may not have been indyref2 rejection” (your report, 13 June). Really? She “reflects that this might be too simplistic!” I think she might mean “simple”, since it was the simplest one-slogan campaign from all of the Unionist parties that gave Scotland a combined vote of 61 per cent for the Union. Say No to a Second Referendum means exactly what it says and cannot be misconstrued, except by those who refuse to read the writing on the wall.

Another statistic that might just prick her arrogance is the fact that a mere 635 votes saved her from losing more than half of her MPS. Losing a third of them scarcely seems to matter to her. So complacent is Ms Sturgeon that she trots down to Westminster, all smiles, and instructs Theresa May to take hard Brexit off the table! Is that the same table that has still got indyref2 lying on it?

Theresa May has had the humility to apologise to her party for a poor campaign – a sign of character. We still wait for the reflective Ms Sturgeon’s response. ALISON FULLARTON Lumsdaine, Eyemouth I realise Keith Howell is opposed to the SNP’S policy to give Scottish voters a democratic choice on their future after the terms of Brexit are known but he is wrong to claim that Nicola Sturgeon is using seats at Holyrood to overrule the will of the people of Scotland (Letters, 14 June).

People vote in elections for various reasons but the SNP has won each of the last seven elections using different systems and, under Westminster’s first-past-the-post method, has a stronger mandate for another referendum than the Tories have to govern the UK.

The Scottish Parliament gave the Scottish Government a clear mandate to press for another referendum and only the threat of independence will keep Scotland’s interests under consideration at Westminster, as Ruth Davidson’s one-trick pony will fall at the first hurdle when her MPS vote for damaging Tory policies.