How will Boris Johnson defend the indefensible?

I’m looking forward to Boris Johnson’s appearance before the committee of privileges on Wednesday, but I’m puzzled by his likely defence. John Rentoul reminds us that Johnson will probably repeat: “There is no evidence that I was at any stage advised by anyone, whether a civil servant or a political adviser, that an event would be against the rules or the guidance before it went ahead.”

We, the public, understood the guidance and the rules and, if we’d forgotten or weren’t sure, we googled them. We don’t have civil servants or political advisers to tell us how to stay within the law. Yet we managed.

What makes him, the one who actually set these rules, so truly dim that he didn’t know how to follow them? Or perhaps instead, so truly arrogant that he thinks he couldn’t have known unless he had been so advised?

Beryl Wall

London

We’re told Bute House, Nicola Sturgeon’s official residence, is to be closed for a lengthy duration for essential repairs. It’s unstable, perhaps even dangerous.

Apparently, it’s become structurally unsound over the years Sturgeon has been its tenant. Parts of the building are rotten beyond repair, leaks everywhere, and it’s deemed a health and safety hazard. In fact, its entire fabric is so defective that it’s falling apart.

As the integrity of SNP senior management hits the headlines, has Bute House become an all too appropriate metaphor?

Martin Redfern

Melrose, Scottish Borders

Looking at the execrable pictures of Suella Braverman in Rwanda – including some in close proximity to a newly built camp which is more internment than holiday – I predict she will have far more detractors this week than just Gary Lineker.

Another clear “ashamed to be British” moment.

Robert Boston

Kingshill, Gloucestershire

As one bank then another runs into trouble, is it the time for the government to weaken financial controls in the City of London?

We should learn from history. The banking collapse in 2008 was sown in the seeds of the loosening of regulations under Thatcher.

Alan Hutchinson

Address supplied

Sitting at my breakfast table on Sunday morning with The Independent open before me, I was reasonably infuriated at the ludicrous (and embarrassing) details of the Boris Johnson resignation honours list; specifically the part where his own father is on it.

Once my equilibrium returned I pressed on; but things soon took a massive downturn when it dawned on me that very shortly we’re going to have to endure the laughable horror of a Liz Truss resignation honours list.

I struggled to imagine who she’ll start with. Any suggestions?

Steve Mackinder

Denver, Norfolk