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Today, Metro readers are discussing Penny Mordaunt’s role of Lord President of the Privy council at the coronation ceremony.

A role she supposedly did press-ups to prepare for.

How do you feel about the events of the coronation?

Are you like one reader is, ‘coronationed out’?

How do you feel about the local elections?

Let us know down in the comments

■ Crikey, I wouldn’t want to arm-wrestle Penny Mordaunt – she must have arms like Tyson Fury. The Conservative MP, who is the Lord President of the Council, didn’t once waver throughout the coronation while wielding swords – one of which weighed 8lb.

Penny was elegant in her dress and could have been cast in Game Of Thrones. She did us proud, and if I was Rishi Sunak I’d be looking over my shoulder – because a caped superhero is behind him.
ST Vaughan, Birmingham

Lord President of the Council, Penny Mordaunt, carrying the Sword of State (Picture: Victoria Jones/PA Wire)

■ I don’t know about you, but I’m just about ‘coronationed out’! However, I fully support King Charles and his successors.

If we had a republic, it wouldn’t be long before we missed our monarchy – see Cromwell and Charles II.

Do we really want an elected president, who would spend all of their time constantly raising funds and campaigning 24/7 to win the next presidential beauty contest?

I was a soldier of the late Queen in the last century and happy to be on active service for her. I wouldn’t like to see this century’s servicemen and women being put in harm’s way for a president.
Dave D, Glasgow

■ To Stuart in London (MetroTalk, Tue), who says ‘the palaces of France and Russia… get plenty of tourism without having the burden of a royal family’.

I’m so glad you mentioned Russia. I suppose you want rid of our monarchy so we can ‘vote in unanimously’ a dictator such as Vladimir Putin. I’ll keep King Charles III, thanks.
James, Walthamstow

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■ There has been so much criticism about the cost of the coronation at a time when people are starving because of the cost of food and getting hypothermia because of the cost of fuel.

People are dying because the NHS is underfunded and yet people are still risking their lives trying to get across the Channel from France in rubber dinghies.

My guess is that things must be tough in other countries as well – and they don’t even have a coronation to pay for.
John B, Surbiton

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■ I for one am glad that the vocal and tiny minority of anarchists were not allowed to spoil the coronation.

Let’s hope we can do the same to those who block motorways.
Jim, London

■ Anti-monarchy demonstrators arrested and their placards seized. Oaths of allegiance to the King. Newsreaders smiling whenever royalty is mentioned. When did Britain turn into North Korea?
T, Glasgow

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■ The late Queen’s maxim was ‘Never complain, never explain’. Watching the coronation concert on Sunday evening, with its frequent references to ‘Did you know’, is the new royal maxim ‘Never complain, always explain’?
John, Canvey Island

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■ I’d like to see the royal family run the country for a four-year term. Charles as PM, William home secretary, Kate education minister, Anne health minister, Harry foreign secretary. Chancellor? Harry’s wife – she’s good with money.
Richard Farrar, London

■ The demise of the Tories in last week’s local elections was brutal. They put it down to the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the cost of living crisis. I wonder if the cause is something more fundamental, such as Boris Johnson.

His sense of entitlement, playing with the truth, cronyism and let’s not forget the debacle that was Brexit. Sunak and the cabinet are all Mr Johnson’s legacy.

Until there’s a flushing out of the old and a fresh political middle ground, they will continue to suffer.
Tony Howarth, A Lapsed Tory, London

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Soft power and should football managers how some decorum?

■ Have you noticed the use of the term ‘soft power’? It says we’re out of the EU, have no military and we’re not the US’s preferred ally, so to compensate
we say ‘soft power UK’.
Mike, South Shields

■ Why do certain football managers jump about like eejits when their team score? Show decorum – plus you’re making supporters redundant.
Ian, Glasgow

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