At last someone is talking some sense. Jack Straw's comments are not about what someone should be allowed to wear as many apologists have tried to say. It's about openness and honesty. I wouldn't talk to someone wearing a veil, I consider it an insult them not being prepared to show their face -by choice remember, the Koran doesn't enforce it.

How would they feel if sitting on a bus they were surrounding by 4 passengers wearing balaclavas? The open face is the only natural way of recognition, it was given to us by nature. It is said that the veil allows Muslim men to beat their wives and not have it draw attention.

How do you know the person behind the veil is who they say they are? nd that cannot exist in modern Britain. In this case it is they who must change. Most of Europe bans the veil and we are part of the EU.