Is Tory disarray a great chance for Reform UK?

AS A lifelong (I am 76) Tory voter and former party member, I have joined Reform UK. The Tories have wilfully betrayed my trust and deserve total annihilation at the polls.

I accept all the stark warnings that voting for Reform UK will simply ensure a Labour government but I don’t care. I am willing to take that risk.

I believe there will be a huge swing of support for Reform UK in the coming election that will give electors the confidence to vote them into power in five years’ time, especially if some disaffected true-Tory MPs defect to them. I will just have to grit my teeth and tolerate a one-term Labour rule, in the hope of seeing a Reform UK landslide next time. If I live that long.

Mrs A. RUTH COMBER, Steyning, W. Sussex. IN The forthcoming election, traditional Conservative voters need to vote reform UK as a form of punishment beating to the Tory party for all the missed opportunities since 2016.

PAUL RUANE, Cannington, Somerset. IS THERE anything at all the Tories have done in the past 14 years that has actually benefited the UK?

All they do is stumble from one crass, spineless incompetence to another, squandering our money. Unfortunately for us, Labour is no better.

This country is in a mess and needs a new party with some joined-up thinking to fix it. If ever there was a golden opportunity for Reform UK, it is now.

STEVE MORLEY, Preston, Lancs.

KWASI KWARTENG deciding not to stand for re-election, along with some 88 other MPs, 55 of them Tories, says a lot about the quality of the lower house. Are they leaving because they are blocked at every turn, or are they the blockers? What a lot of sorry excuses they are.

CHRIS SHARP, Leeds.