If he wanted to be re-elected, what Rishi Sunak should have said in that TV interview (The politics sketch, 12 June) when asked “Have you ever gone without something?” is: “No, of course not. I never went hungry or without warm clothes or a room of my own. I went to an excellent school. I had two loving parents. I wanted for nothing a child needs to grow up. It is a national disgrace that thousands of children in this country do not have the same. We must do much more and I propose that we will.” Helen Muir Tywyn, Gwynedd Please tell Annie Hall (Letters, 9 June) that my late mother Pearl Bradford, a primary school teacher, fitted the bill. She would find something positive – however small – in any piece of work, having been encouraged to do so by a tutor when she was a student at Goldsmiths in the late 1930s. Mary Hutty Bath Does anyone know what the odds are on the Tory MP Craig Williams being unemployed by 5 July (Tories face new questions over Sunak aide who placed bet on July election, 14 June)? Ian Grieve Gordon Bennett, Llangollen canal Bit rich of David Cameron to claim that Nigel Farage is trying to destroy the Conservative party (Politics live, 15 June). The Tories seem to be doing a pretty good job of destroying themselves. Su Hardman Woodbridge So Farage has only got one ball (Profile, 14 June). Is his other in the Albert Hall? Tom Hardy London