An extraordinary lack of focus in the election debate on Britain’s debt
SIR – The extraordinary thing about the questions from the studio audience and Jeremy Paxman, and about the leaders’ replies during the Sky News and Channel 4 event on Monday night (report, May 30), was that there was almost no mention by anyone of our country’s enormous deficit and debt or of Labour’s tax and spending proposals to reduce our economy to one like that of Venezuela. Michael Staples
Seaford, East Sussex
SIR – I cannot understand why Theresa May was so reticent in answering Jeremy Paxman’s repeated questions as to whether she had changed her mind about Brexit.
She could have admitted she had been a marginal Remainer, could now see the positives of Brexit more clearly, especially since the referendum, and was keen to deliver them for Britain.
I feel this would have gone down better than the way she dealt with it. James Thacker
Tanworth-in-arden, Warwickshire SIR – Congratulations to the Prime Minister on her politeness and composure in the face of exceptionally rude, aggressive and repetitive questioning by Jeremy Paxman. Stuart Norman
Teignmouth, Devon
SIR – William Hague’s Comment piece “A successful Brexit would not be possible under Jeremy Corbyn” (May 30) should be delivered to every household. This election was called to determine which leader is best placed to negotiate in Brussels a successful outcome for the United Kingdom.
Jeremy Corbyn has promised Utopia paid for by “someone else”. Well, we’d all like to live there, but only the truly non-thinking gullible will fall for it. He has barely mentioned Brexit and obviously has no plan for negotiations, which start 11 days after the election. Val Strickland
Middlesbrough
SIR – Certain politicians and sections of the media have decided to put on trial a man who has fought for peace, the saving of lives and a more humane approach to those designated as enemies to be killed and conquered.
Despite all the smears, there is a noble courage of coherence about Jeremy Corbyn’s record that makes him not only fit to be prime minister but a necessity for this century.
Where people link hands, as in Ireland and Europe, wars end and society prospers. People like Corbyn – and Mandela, Gandhi and Obama – deserve the support of the sane. Ian Flintoff
Oxford
SIR – In Mr Corbyn’s 30-year career, no Labour government saw him as mature enough for a ministerial role. He spent his time on the backbenches often revolting against his own party.
Are we now expected to see him as fit to lead the country during the bitter talks with the EU over our departure? This joke has gone on long enough. Peter Flanagan
Stockton-on-the-forest, North Yorkshire