Covid blame game | Cicero | Camp beds | Rosen welcome | Oldham
Larry Elliott rightly states: “Boris Johnson and his ministers cannot be blamed for the arrival of a pandemic” (UK economy: a full recovery from the Covid slump will be slow, 12 August). Nor could Gordon Brown and his ministers be blamed for a global banking crash, yet I seem to remember David Cameron doing just that and winning an election on its back.
Ken Gambles
Knaresborough, North Yorkshire
• “Politicians are not born, they are excreted” (Letters, 12 August). Absolutely right, but Cicero’s words, not Ovid’s.
Alec Sandison
Ottery St Mary, Devon