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Interesting that the chair of the BP remuneration committee is a mechanical engineer and president of the Royal Academy of Engineering (Financial, 15 April). When I joined BP in the mid-1960s, a young graduate engineer earned about £1,000 a year, while the annual salary of the executive chairman, Eric Drake, was £50,000. I doubt that any BP engineer, recent graduate or not, now earns a 50th of Bob Dudley’s prospective remuneration of £14m, namely £280,000.
Charles Ian C Wishart
London
• “Everyone can join in” the Golden Rule Tax Disobedience (Letters, 19 April) – no we can’t. Those of us whose entire income is taxed via PAYE have no way to take this kind of action. The occupations of the listed signatories are instructive in this respect.
Pam Lunn
Kenilworth, Warwickshire