When it comes to Shamima Begum, let’s not forget about Theresa May’s legacy at the Home Office

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The suggestion in your leader that Theresa May could be implicated in the decision to strip Shamima Begum of her British citizenship rings true.

I am surprised at the general lack of recognition of the relevance of her experience as home secretary to her position over Brexit.

It seems to me that her entire approach can be understood as pursuing her past agenda – in particular limiting immigration and escaping the jurisdiction of the ECHR – even to the point of neglecting the proper concerns of a prime minister.

It seems that you can take the woman out of the Home Office, but you can’t take the Home Office out of the woman.

Rachael Padman
Newmarket

MPs and UK citizenship

Alongside her two fellow travellers, she deserted her people without warning, attacked them verbally and joined a hostile organisation. Since then she has shown no remorse whatsoever, and in fact may serve as an inspiration for others. Left to her own devices, she will be a constant thorn in our government’s side. The home secretary must do all in his power to strip UK citizenship from Anna Soubry.

Barry Tighe
Woodford

I was talking yesterday with a friend, a Syrian refugee, about Shamima Begum. He asked me why our government has removed British citizenship from Begum but not from Asma al-Assad, the British-born wife of the Syrian dictator. I had no answer, other than that this country excels at duplicity, home and abroad.

Beryl Wall
London W4

The Independent Group and the Lib Dems

As much as I welcome the breakup of both the Conservative and Labour Parties over our membership of the EU, I do however genuinely believe the Independent Group ought to now join the Liberal Democrats to be a lot stronger.

Vince Cable is leader of the party for now, but he will step aside once someone is willing to take on the job and maybe one of the new group might want that position.

One day, hopefully we’ll see a new prime minister of a united UK that is still a member of the EU.

Richard Grant
Ringwood

Why are MPs going back on their promises?

Jeremy Corbyn says that MPs who resign their party whip should stand in a by-election because they have abandoned the policies on which they were elected.

Approximately 85 per cent of the votes cast in the 2017 general election went to candidates whose party manifesto promised to respect the referendum result to leave the EU.

Conservatives, Labour, Ukip, and the Northern Ireland unionist parties all promised this. So why are so many MPs still trying to prevent our exit from the EU or calling for a second referendum?

They are the ones who should submit themselves to a by-election because they have abandoned one of the major policies on which they were elected.

Michael Clarke
Portishead

It’s not all our fault, kids

Looking at the placards held by children on their “Strike 4 Climate” it was clear they see the legacy of previous generations as a problem.

Rather than acknowledging humanity’s advance and progress, they see all modernisation as destructive and dangerous.

Why are they taught to view their parents’ achievements as a danger?

Where debate is closed down and one side derided, should they not be encouraged to ask why? Is intergenerational conflict to achieve a controversial policy really a risk worth taking?

John Cameron
St Andrews