Voters have a clear alternative: Conservative prudence and Labour’s spendthrift fantasies

SIR – When Labour last left office, Liam Byrne famously wrote a note saying: “I’m afraid there is no money.”

The same will happen again if Labour wins this election. The Tories should make this the centrepiece of their electioneering in the final hours, as a wake-up call to those who really do think that money grows on trees.

Five years of a Labour government would result in the Tories returning in 2022 with a mandate to cut spending. Paul Caruana

Truro, Cornwall

SIR – For all the evidence that Jeremy Corbyn would be a disastrous prime minister, there is a real danger that it could happen.

Besides the diehard Labour supporters, there are about six million young people eligible to vote for the first time. Not all will do so, yet many will, and we cannot expect them to be sympathetic to Mrs May, especially with Labour making such wild pledges as cancelling university tuition fees. Already in the past 12 months we have seen two things that the polls suggested would be highly unlikely: Brexit and a Trump presidency. A third such event cannot be ruled out. John Moore

London W7

SIR – The magic money tree could well be growing in your garden.

You should find out, before it’s too late, how much “land tax” on yours might be levied by Labour. Lindy Phillips

Richmond, Surrey

SIR – This election should have been fought on the real political dividing line in the country: whether our vote to leave the EU is respected and enacted or disrespected and ignored.

We urge support for candidates who are genuine democrats: who accept that they are bound by our decision to leave, and want decisions about Britain to be made in Britain by elected, accountable representatives. These principles are more important than allegiance to any one party.

We will continue to campaign against those who would bypass democracy. There are candidates willing to sacrifice anything to retain the kind of technocratic, top-down rule that the EU represents. There are those who have argued for the break-up of the UK (the SNP) or who want London to become a city-state if we leave the EU (David Lammy).

The referendum result was the largest political mandate for anything, ever, in the UK. That mandate must be respected and enacted. David Axe

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Director, The Bruges Group and five others; see telegraph.co.uk

SIR – In North Shropshire, I have seen a handful of posters and no canvassers. We have had two leaflets delivered by the Royal Mail, one for the Tories and the other for Labour. I know there is a Liberal Democrat candidate, but we have had no material from him.

Not everyone is wedded to social media, and I suspect there are many like me who find the election overkill on television and the radio a turnoff. I don’t need the artificial debates, with politicians and audiences both trying to score points – but I would like some local evidence that the people who are asking for my support really do care. Leslie Cadwallader

Oswestry, Shropshire

SIR – I wish that, like Jo Gilvary (Letters, June 6), I lived in Buckingham.

In Mole Valley the Conservatives always win and there is no point bothering to vote Labour or Lib Dem. Buckingham has four varied candidates – including, exceptionally, a truly local Independent. Consequently its constituents are more fortunate than the rest of us – and have the unique opportunity of removing John Bercow as Speaker. Peter Froggatt

Dorking, Surrey