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…