Letters

Frank today spoke with the BBC about his letter to the Prime Minister on Hermes's treatment of ‘self-employed' workers. Read the letter here.

Ms Sturgeon is the biggest loser from the successful Leave campaign. There is no way the EU will consider a membership application from Scotland when the UK leaves. Spain, for one, is not going to allow Scotland to join, and see Catalonia set in hand the disintegration of Spain within the EU.

Almost 150,000 former Labour voters crossed over to Ukip at the 2010 election. Five years later, at the 2015 election, this number had increased to nearly a million.

The referendum result heralds a resounding victory for those groups of voters who have lost so heavily from globalisation, which have largely been working-class people.

That insurgency began assembling for battle in the UK at the last general election. Nearly 1m one-time Labour voters supported the UK Independence party.

A key lesson from the Blair/Brown strategy of lifting NHS funding to the European average was that voters did not see a hypothecated National Insurance increase for health as a tax.

Labour MPs Frank Field and Margaret Hodge called for clarity after prime minister David Cameron announced plans to introduce a register to identify foreign owners of UK properties.

Nearly a million Labour voters in this country supported Ukip in 2015 and I fear a million more will join them as a result of the EU referendum. These voters are motivated by their feelings for their country and of a decent society that thinks first, but not only, of its responsibility to family and community.

Patrick Butler joins a growing number of people who seek answers on how many people in this country are hungry, and why (Who knows how many people are going hungry? The government should, 20 April). The all-party parliamentary group on hunger, which I chair, has, with great despair, posed this question on a number of occasions over the past two years.