Gutless Conservatives

sir – The Tory MPS described by Fraser Nelson (Comment, September 1) sound like a lily-livered shower of spineless millennial snowflakes. Perhaps the newly refurbished Houses of Parliament should have a safe space where they can all retire for a group hug and a little cry when the hurly-burly of political life becomes too much for them to bear.

The defeatist idea that the Conservatives haven’t won a “proper” election victory since 1987 is nonsense. In 1992, John Major achieved the highest popular vote in British electoral history.

This year, despite a disastrous campaign in which the Prime Minister threw away a double-digit poll lead virtually single-handed, the party still received more votes than any winning Labour campaign has ever done.

Conservative MPS should stop whingeing, pull themselves together and get into line. David Thomas

Chichester, West Sussex