How many nurses’ salaries could be paid from the tax cuts given to the ultra-rich?

The vast chasm between the Kwarteng income tax cuts for the worst and best-off workers needs constant reiteration. For minimum wage full-timers – about £1.50 a week. For highest rate payers – £870. Nearly 600 times as much. And a lucky footballer on £250k per week? A mind-boggling £2.36m a year. This insane and immoral gift to each already ultra-rich individual would pay for 68 nurses.

Alan Kirby

Cornwall

James Moore (27 September) points out that electric vehicles are becoming much more expensive to run as the cost of electricity rises sharply, and that the government is not helping by adding VAT at 20 per cent for public charging points.

Perhaps one factor is the large tax revenue stream arising from the sale of petrol and diesel fuel, so the treasury has little incentive to encourage a switch to EVs, particularly in the light of last week’s tax-cutting announcements.

John Wilkin

Bury St Edmunds

Having read most of the articles in your newspaper concerning the new prime minister’s economic policies, nowhere have I been able to find any mention of how these policies will affect the many pensioners with no or little private pension.

Richard Walter

Leeds

Suddenly, Bojo and Rishi seem like they were the dream team! What’s happening?

John Maxwell

Bournemouth

I read Andrew Woodcock’s article (We’ll get UK out of endless cycle of crisis, says Starmer, 27 September) with interest. Keir Starmer and the Labour Party can now manifestly show who are the “grown-up” political party in this country. Although to be fair, many Conservative MPs must be holding their heads in their hands at this economic trajectory their chancellor is leading them on. This mini-Budget has been cataclysmic – and yet again it was a continuation of the leadership hustings, with the Tory hierarchy talking to their converts. It was a pre-election gung-ho statement, two years too early unless they are not telling us something!

Keir Starmer is right that this party has lost fiscal credibility and Labour, with hopefully good, proactive plans, can lead the poor beleaguered country out of this never-ending spiral of crises. We all want to wake up to calm and well-considered governance, instead it appears to be a gameshow to these new kids on the block. Yes, there does need to be a growth initiative but not at the expense of everything else. So cometh the hour, cometh the man Sir Keir and lead us out of this rabbit hole debacle.

Judith A Daniels

Great Yarmouth

Your article states “.... electrical products in the home are rated by how many kilowatts (kW) of electricity they consume in an hour....” Appliances are certainly labelled in kW but that is a measurement of power they are capable of drawing through the meter ie the maximum rate at which they consume energy at a moment in time. It is most certainly not a measure of how much energy an appliance consumes in an hour. That is measured in kWh. To the extent that a 1kW appliance using its rated power for an hour uses 1kWh of energy, the table of appliance costs in the article is numerically correct but what a pity not to explain that kWh is the correct unit for measuring energy (and what an electricity meter measures). The table of costs is also rather muddling in that it lists gas appliances in with electrical appliances and gives everything an hourly cost when the cost of a washing machine cycle would be more useful.

Peter Newbery

Royal Park

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Back in July, Liz Truss promised that if she was elected Tory leader she’d “hit the ground [sic]”. That’s exactly what she’s done as prime minister, and after Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget on Friday, Sterling is hitting the ground with her.

Truss’s administration of “no talents” is a car crash of a government – and it’s not even got out of the garage yet.

Sasha Simic

London

I think we should cut Liz Truss some slack and give her credit for living up to her campaign message that she would deliver, deliver, and deliver. After three weeks in office she has delivered billions in tax cuts to the wealthiest, delivered rising inflation and interest rates, and delivered the worst value of the pound against the dollar in history. Go Liz.

I am sure the 82,000 people who chose her to be our prime minister are thrilled.

Deborah Everett

Manchester