Ann Widdecombe has proved me wrong

Ann Widdecombe gives a speech to the European parliament alongside the Brexit party leader Nigel Farage. Photograph: EuropaTV/PAThe item on Lodge Moor (Students reveal stories from Britain’s largest prisoner of war camp, 4 July) reminded me of an incident early in my career as a German teacher. I was travelling to Vienna along the Danube by scooter in 1965 when a heavy shower reduced the surface to mud. We took shelter in a café with the men repairing the road and, chatting with the