One more hard-hat photo opportunity for Rachel Reeves | Brief letters

Hard-hatting chancellor | Welcoming US academics | Water fines | Customer service | Skincare routineYour pictures of Rachel Reeves in various hard hats, such as the one in Saturday’s paper, threaten to erase the memory of photos of Theresa and Philip May exiting church. Perhaps you could furnish us with a photo of Ms Reeves explaining to a group of benefit recipients why she proposed to cut their annual incomes by thousands of pounds, an encounter which would produce yet another hard-hat photo opportunity.Roderick MacFarquharEdinburgh• Will UK universities follow France’s Aix-Marseille University in offering US-based researchers threatened by Trump’s crackdown on academia a “safe place” to undertake their work (Report, 17 April)? Will the government support such an initiative, or will they worry about upsetting the possibility of a UK-US trade deal?Rhiannon JonesSheffield Continue reading...

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