The fast track to becoming a bricklayer | Brief letters

Apprenticeships | A longer read | Labour ‘supporter’ wants refund | How to pain Trump | Best wishes to Giles FraserFrank Field (Letters, 13 June) suggests that “we need to use proven 12-week apprenticeship courses for specific skills, such as bricklaying and carpentry”. As a staff member at the Manchester College of Building from 1975 until it was merged out of existence in the 90s, I had wondered at Labour’s seeming indifference to skills education and training. No