SIR – With regard to social mobility and John Prescott, who was MP for East Hull, where the fine art department at the Regional College of Art was located when I was a student there, apparently he was quite hurt that he and his wife were never invited to one of Tony and Cherie’s soirees, at Chequers I believe, for the innermost at the top of the Labour Party, the ‘Oxbridge’ set.

Iain Morris, Caroline Street, Saltaire