Volunteering to help Conservative Party campaigning is suspended until Theresa May resigns

SIR – Last week I received a request from the local Conservative Party asking me to volunteer to help distribute information for the coming local elections. I wondered what to do.

In the end, I emailed the Prime Minister and informed her that I will not help until she resigns.

Perhaps it is too much to expect that she will listen to the public when she is so busy spinning round that she does not hear anyone in Parliament. Catherine Holme

Enstone, Oxfordshire

SIR – I have finally lost my belief that Theresa May’s misguided antics were at least based on a conviction that she was acting in the best interests of the country. I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that her prime motivation is to salvage her badly tarnished reputation, and leave with some kind of notable achievement behind her.

Unfortunately, her disastrous deal would do lasting damage to Britain, and in trying to push it through with the help of Jeremy Corbyn and his acolytes, she is clearly prepared to trash the Conservative Party. This in time would probably result in a Marxist Labour government and heap even more damage on Britain.

If she is the principled woman I once hoped, she will accept her failure and make way for a leader with the vision to match what the people voted for nearly three years ago.

Peter de la Nougerede

Seaford, East Sussex

SIR – In spite of grossly incompetent handling of the Brexit negotiations from the first, our hapless Prime Minister has somehow been handed one final glorious opportunity to fulfil the mandate of the referendum.

The six months’ extension until Hallowe’en affords her a chance to make up for her disastrously leadenfooted approach to no-deal planning.

What does she do with this opportunity? She throws it away by shelving Operation Yellowhammer to prove beyond all doubt she is utterly unwilling to oversee anything other than Brexit in name only. I cannot understand for the life of me why a large majority of our political elite do not see the huge advantages presented by the referendum result in untying ourselves from the inefficient, failing EU. Their solution produces only subservience. Tim Evans

Crickhowell, Breconshire

SIR – The caption to your picture of Mrs May (April 12) said that she had just returned from a “gruelling EU summit”. Surely you meant “grovelling”? Paul Rutherford

Alresford, Hampshire

SIR – Insofar as Mrs May is leading the Conservative Party, she is leading it towards a trouncing on May 23.

The better course might be to field no Conservative candidates, giving as the reason that we are leaving the EU and could not make a useful contribution in the few remaining months of membership. That would clear the way for the Brexit Party to inflict defeat on Labour. Peter R Douglas-jones

Swansea

SIR – Olly Robbins negotiated the Withdrawal Agreement and now Sir Mark Sedwill has cancelled no-deal Brexit planning. Will the civil service be fielding candidates for the forthcoming EU elections? Ian Goddard

Wickham, Hampshire

SIR – Has Mrs May lost all emotional intelligence? Surely she can see that, although the nation feels that she has tried hard to negotiate Brexit, her time’s up. Nigel Lines

St Ives, Hampshire

SIR – It is a pity that the police cannot perform the same service for 10 Downing Street as they performed for the Ecuadorian embassy. Howard Ford

Burgh Heath, Surrey