IF a Prime Minister is born in England and has a parliamentary constituency within England, not only does no one question their right to make laws which affect Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales, but no one makes a point of focusing on their ethnicity.

Why, then, when we have a Prime Minister who is Scottish and has a Scottish constituency do those in England who criticise his policies like to focus so heavily on him being Scottish?

Given similar treatment, if the next Prime Minister was from, and had a constituency within either Northern Ireland or Wales, they would in all likelihood suffer the same focus on their ethnicity as a means of deriding them.

With such narrow-mindedness towards the non-English as so often shown within the English media (including letters to HAS), is it any wonder why people in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales want out of the UK?

CT Riley, Spennymoor, Co Durham.