Bad voters

SIR – What a curious piece by William Hague (Comment, June 26) on the march of the “Strong Man” in politics.

He seems genuinely baffled as to why educated people would vote for these leaders. If so, he stands as a shining example of a professional politician who is out of touch with the mood of the people. He and his like are the reason people are voting, as he puts it, “in an incontestably bad way”.

He needs no further demonstration of why the electorate continues to behave so badly than to look at his own party in government. Has there ever been a greater shambles? Philip Plotkin

Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire