We need the return of Miliband the elder | Brief letters

David Miliband on Iraq | Tory turn-off | PoW chapel | Expensive flower shows | Malvern beckons

The wisdom and honesty of David Miliband at the Hay festival (David Miliband calls support for Iraq war one of his ‘deepest regrets’, 28 May) shows how much he is needed in frontline politics now, and why Labour missed a trick in not appointing him leader all those years ago. What might persuade him back, I wonder.
Simon Surtees
London

• Your headline “Why are millennials so turned off by the Tory party?” (30 May) puzzled me. Surely it should read: “Why isn’t everyone turned off by the Tory party?”
Steve Hodgson
Ambergate, Derbyshire