Give us all a share of Rolls-Royce’s profits | Brief letters

Economy The Guardian By Guardian Staff 03 Nov 2026 17:49 1 min read
Give us all a share of  Rolls-Royce’s profits | Brief letters

Government should invest, not subsidise | Size matters | ‘Ferritin face’ | Train announcements | Reform UK’s newspaper Rather than give Rolls-Royce a £1.25bn subsidy to develop the next-generation narrow-body jet airliner programme (Nils Pratley on finance, 29 October), would it not be more advantageous to the Treasury, and thus the taxpayer, me included, to invest £1.25bn in shares in the company? That way, we all get a share of the prospective profits, and in the long run pay lower taxes.

Patrick Billingham

Brighton, East Sussex

• You say the Rothbury estate covers “an area the size of Athens” (Wildlife Trusts hit £30m target to buy and rewild huge Northumberland estate, 30 October). When did you move to measuring land area in terms of the Greek capital rather than the traditional British measures of Greater Londons or Wales (or parts thereof)?

John Hubbard

Chislehurst, Kent

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