SIR – The letter (November 26) from Professor Kamila Hawthorne, chair of the Royal College of GPs, asserting that GPs are “keeping the NHS upright”, only shows how out of touch that college is.
SIR – Compulsory metering cannot be justified where the supplier is a private monopoly, and certainly not by a Government whose central plank is competition (“Water meters may be forced on households, report, February 19”).