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Instead of fining drug firms that hike their prices (Report, 29 July) a more effective deterrent might be to strip them of their patent at the first sign of overpricing. I’m not sure even large fines will make any difference to the super-rich beneficiaries of these practices. They obviously have no shame and their pockets are deep.
Kate Hanna
Auckland, New Zealand
• Four Conservative, four Labour and one Scottish Nationalist hardly constitute a “genuinely all-party” committee (Editorial, 30 July). Your leader writer needs to wake up to the fact that there are nine other genuine parties in parliament, represented by 42 elected MPs.
Bill Bytheway
Swansea
