Poor outlook with Rishi rich

■ THE last time inflation hit today’s level, most people were in secure, decently paid jobs and were able to cope better. Heating or eating wasn’t as much of an issue.

Over the years, the Tories have presided over a Britain that’s been dragged from a world-renowned manufacturing nation to a flimsy economy that they call a success.

Too many young people are in jobs that leave them living hand to mouth, unable to make plans for the future. Yet we have a Tory Chancellor who, with his non-dom multi-millionaire wife, has made it on to the Sunday Times Rich List with their joint £730million fortune (Mirror, May 21).

How can they ever understand how hard things are for people?

Carl Enever, Chilwell, Notts

■ So, Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty are now on the Sunday Times Rich List. Nothing surprising there.

We’ve been told the gap between rich and poor is forever widening and your comment piece by Jason Beattie said it all (May 21). Oxfam says the top 1% of the global population has more wealth than the rest of the world put together. I’ve just finished reading The Panama Papers, which tells how the wealthy hide their assets in tax havens with shell companies.

Do the working class who vote Tory wonder why millionaires go into politics in the first place? It’s because they don’t want the laws changed, such as non-dom status.

Jim Temlett, Dursley, Glos

■ Are we becoming more like Russia? Suppress ordinary working-class people, suppress the truth, suppress all opposition to taxing the filthy rich?

Not to mention introducing new laws to suppress the unions.

This Conservative government, the least intelligent bunch of under-performers this country has ever seen, has changed and sold off so much to benefit themselves that the damage will take a century to put right.

They must be stopped and punished. It’s time to call a national strike and force a general election.

Ron Knight, Chesterfield, Derbys

■ Your report on the unimaginable wealth of the Chancellor was really shocking, It is completely wrong in every way that some individuals can somehow accumulate so much personal wealth.

Try living on a state pension of £600 a month, Mr Sunak. Christine McGiffie, Bridgend

■ When people vote, they only have to look back at history to discover the Tories have never cared about our welfare. I remember how back under Thatcher and Major inflation and interest rates soared – my mortgage was at 16%.

Labour didn’t leave the country in this kind of state after the greedy bankers nearly brought the world economy to its knees.

And if they were still in power today, instead of the millionaire Tories, we would not be in this mess now.

Eddie Fidler, Oxford

■ If ever there was anyone less qualified to be Chancellor of the Exchequer in this time of economic uncertainty, it is Rishi Sunak who is now ranked among the richest people in the UK.

The man is so far out of touch from the day-to-day struggles of ordinary people, he might as well be living in a different universe.

Angela Kelly, Liverpool

■ Multi-millionaire Rishi Sunak and his Tory cronies will never have to rely on food banks, which their policies have created.

Thanks to them, Britain is now a country run by the rich for the rich.

Michael Rowley, Dudley, West Mids