Not May’s day as Corbyn stays cool

I think even most Tories would have to admit that Jeremy Corbyn was the big winner of Monday night’s TV Q&A. He was the winner with the audience, too.

Jeremy Paxton held up a copy of the Labour manifesto but directed all his questions to what was not in it. Instead he went back 30 years to Corbyn’s failure to support The Falklands War to try to blacken his name. But the Labour leader remained calm and unruffled.

Theresa May, on the other hand, was weak and wobbly and unable to answer questions from the audience directly. During her interview, she was hopeless until he directed his questions to her favourite subject – Brexit. If social media is anything to go by, Corbyn’s star is on the rise. Michael Davenport Wilmslow, Cheshire

Jeremy Corbyn may not have got his wish for Theresa May to go head-to-head with him in a live debate but their Q&A sessions proved to be a winner for him. While he was concise, articulate and well received by the studio audience, May waffled, backtracked and was often ridiculed by the same audience. There is no doubt this was a great success for Corbyn, which I hope is reflected on June 8. May is not fit to lead this country on domestic policies or handling the tricky Brexit negotiations. Paul Griffiths Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria

Theresa May’s constant claim to be “strong and stable” is wearing a bit thin, as we saw during her TV performance. Her constant assertion that she, not Corbyn, will secure the best deal for Britain is more than presumptuous considering her catastrophic reign as Home Secretary.

Do the people of this country honestly believe that EU leaders will cower before her finger wagging?

Jeremy’s cool, calm and collected attitude is much more in line with other European leaders. I am certain that a mutually acceptable settlement can be better achieved with him at the helm. Ken McGrath Rotherham, South Yorks

There wasn’t a positive answer to any of the questions put to May from the audience, whether on police numbers, the dementia tax, pensioners’ winter fuel allowance or cuts to school funding and the NHS. All we got was waffle.

We are no clearer now than we were before. The PM clearly doesn’t have any answers. C Beaumont Newport, Gwent

Having watched Jeremy Corbyn’s TV performance, it brought to mind the situation we were in at the end of the Second World War. The country was bankrupt, yet Labour put forward a revolutionary manifesto, not dissimilar to the one produced by Corbyn. Clement Attlee’s government gave us the NHS, education for all, the welfare state and a house-building programme that provided decent homes. All this was achieved without the use of austerity and the people of this great nation were brought out of dire poverty and into affluence. To all those doubting Labour voters, consider the policies on offer. We did it in 1945 and we can do it again. Graham Williams Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taf