It is clearly embarrassing for Robert Jenrick, born and educated in Wolverhampton, not to know whether it’s a town or a city (Report, 9 January) but I have some sympathy with his confusion. The definition of a city in the UK is a place which has been granted city status by the monarch, which tells us nothing, and I’m not sure on what basis Wolverhampton was chosen to be made a city in 2000. It looks and feels like a large town (population approximately 260,000); nothing wrong with that. But then I come from London, and – with apologies to Crocodile Dundee – that’s a city. Click here to upload it and we’ll publish the best submissions in the letters spread of our print edition

Source: The Guardian January 12, 2020 17:48 UTC