SIR – Harold Wilson grows in stature all the time. He would not be the US’s lapdog like former Prime Ministers Tony Blair or Margaret Thatcher were.

He wanted a quiet family funeral on the Isles of Scilly. Mrs T apparently thought that a flypast would be a waste of money; presumably she thought our debt-strapped country shelling out a few million on the rest of her lavish funeral would be money well spent?

Let’s hope we give the US tourists time to arrive to recoup the money.

Max Hey, Fairway Grove, Bradford