Lord’s Cricket Ground, one of the centres in Westminster offering Covid-19 vaccinations

• TO my mind there have been some really good letters over the years from Alida Baxter to the Extra and, generally, I have had no disagreement with any, but her latest does prompt such, (Lord’s fails the jabs test! January 22).

I was also sent to Lord’s Cricket Ground for an anti-Covid jab and can’t praise the whole process enough. Roughly 15 to 20 minutes in the queue and 15 minutes more in the room where the inoculations happened, and away home. All done quickly and efficiently.

Mind you we must surely just love the way politicians, up on their hinders on boxes, claim credit for the what has been done by those actually providing the service.

The government will be collectively patting themselves on the back concerning the apparent success so far about the jabs programme.

It will also be a boost for the prime minister. If ever there was a man who personally wants to be loved by all and sundry, Boris Johnson is your man.

This is a probable factor as to why the UK has been so reluctant to bring forward policies that will be unpopular on so many occasions.

He has shown a chronic inability to make the correct decisions at the right time on several occasions over the last 12 months.

Perhaps we can console ourselves with the fact that we have shown ourselves capable of developing our version of Covid-19 in the Kent variant.

Just where was Nigel Farage, with Union Jack, singing we want no foreign bugs here, probably adapted to the tune of Rule Britannia, at the cliffs of Dover?

Perhaps he could be joined by the drivers of all those lorries that keep getting stuck in Kent and or all those fishermen who so enthusiastically voted only for it to turn out not to be quite the Utopia promised.

With fire-and-rehire policies over the years to come, British workers will soon enough find out what getting our laws back means, as surely as fishermen are finding what getting our waters back means.

It is to be hoped the fishermen are as happy as the fish that Jacob Rees-Mogg has recently referenced.

HARRY BOURNE, SW1