Race to the bottom over immigration

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/12/race-to-the-bottom-over-immigration

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New migration rules | Capitulating to Reform | Relocating or immigrating? | Learning the french horn | Accordion playing | Old kitchen essentials

“Starmer to toughen migration rules in challenge to Reform”, said your main headline in print today. Isn’t this a race to the bottom?Colin ProwerChipping Norton, Oxfordshire

I noticed a mistake in the main headline on Monday’s front page – you’ve spelt “capitulation” as “challenge”.Ian LewisHope Mansell, Herefordshire

Oh, so wealthy Americans coming to live in this country and buying our houses are relocating – they are not immigrants (We’re in the Hamptons of England, 10 May).Stephanie BaileyNorton-sub-Hamdon, Somerset

Bob Forster’s accordion playing (Letters, 9 May) may be more excruciating for his wife than my late husband’s attempts to learn the french horn in his 60s. He insisted on giving visitors renditions of his “tunes”, despite my pleas not to. Alan’s musical accomplishments are the only thing I don’t miss after 13 years of widowhood.Sharman FinlayPortrush, County Antrim

Bob Forster’s accordion achievement was tempered in my mind by the saying: “A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.”Peter J NegriNorwich

Re old kitchen tools (Letters, 7 May), about 25 years ago, my in-laws dug out my husband’s great-great-grandmother’s three cast iron skillets and gave them to us. More than 120 years old and used so often that we just leave the largest one out on the hob.Karen AbbottMacclesfield, Cheshire

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