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Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch appear on ITV’s Conservative leadership debate in July 2022. All three later served as Tory leaders.
Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch appear on ITV’s Conservative leadership debate in July 2022. All three later served as Tory leaders. Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/ITV/PA

Brief letters: Kemi Badenoch | Fantasy homes | Dog owners’ names | Ferrero Rocher | Useful bed warmers | Tips for staying awake

John Crace asserts that Kemi Badenoch is “the worst leader of the Tory party in living memory” (Badenoch gives a borderline disgraceful performance at PMQs on Iran, 4 March). Really? Worse than Liz Truss?
Roshi Saul
Avening, Gloucestershire

• A warm welcome to “Britain’s newest affordable towns” (Revealed: the new affordable commuter hotspots in Great Britain, 7 March). Could this replace the Fantasy house hunt series, please?
John Pelling
Coddenham, Suffolk

• Perhaps it takes longer to learn dog owners’ names because they don’t so frequently have to be called to heel (Letters, 5 March). Maggie’s owner, whom I first met while dog walking on the sand dunes at least seven years ago, decided to introduce himself last week.
Valerie Pedlar
Southport, Merseyside

• Emma Brockes reports that the most shoplifted chocolate in London is Ferrero Rocher (Digested week, 27 February). Must be those light-fingered ambassadors.
Quentin Rubens
Twickenham, London

• I too had a Belling bed warmer when I was young (Letters, 3 March), which I swapped for a husband. I have him still, although after 50 years, the heat output may not be what once it was.
Margaret Ward
Carluke, South Lanarkshire

• Interesting though they are, the letters on how to fall asleep are of little use to me (Letters, 4 March). As a 95-year-old with a tendency to doze off, I would prefer some advice on how to stay awake, especially in front of the television.
Cyril Duff
London

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