SIR - Looking around at our homeless, foodbank-reliant UK, I would imagine that if Charles Dickens were alive today he would probably write pretty much the same stories as he did in his lifetime.

I`m afraid we are sleepwalking into a new Dickensian era brought about by Theresa May`s compassionate Conservatism.

Brexit will begin the final stages of the process.

Colin Durkin, Moffat Close, Bradford