Jeremy Hunt has failed to understand what the election result meant

SIR – Jeremy Hunt states that the Conservatives will be annihilated in an election if a no-deal Brexit is carried through (report, May 28).

Did he not notice his party’s total annihilation in last week’s vote?

March, Cambridgeshire

SIR – Mr Hunt should read Boris Johnson’s article (Comment, May 27), which states: “No one sensible would aim exclusively for a no-deal outcome and no one responsible would take no-deal off the table”.

The threat of no-deal is one of the only bargaining points we have.

Horley, Surrey

SIR – The Conservative Party has only two routes to “political suicide”, as Mr Hunt describes it. One is for its own MPS to vote against the Government in a no-confidence vote, and the other is to fail to make a clean break with the EU by October 31.

If the EU continues to insist on Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement as the only deal on offer, then either we leave under World Trade Organisation terms or the Conservative Party self-destructs.

Bath, Somerset

SIR – By refusing to rule out voting against his own party in a confidence vote (report, May 27), the Chancellor Philip Hammond is implying that a no-deal Brexit would be more damaging to the economy than a government led by Jeremy Corbyn. Really?

Windsor, Berkshire

SIR – The main reason that both the Conservatives and Labour haemorrhaged votes in the EU elections was that their MPS simply failed to listen to their constituents.

The Tories now have an opportunity to demonstrate that they have learnt their lesson. Every MP should meet with their constituency association members and take instruction as to who they should support in the leadership campaign. Maybe then we will see evidence of their ability to learn and practise democracy.

Leyland, Lancashire

SIR – Rather than the current focus on whether or not the Conservative leadership candidates could, if pushed, go for a no-deal Brexit, surely the first question should be: “How would you vote in a second referendum?”

Readers will recall that Mrs May was unable to give a clear answer to this question. We can all see where this lack of conviction has led us.

London SE22

SIR – Many will be awaiting October 31 this year with trepidation, not least as it falls on Hallowe’en.

Perhaps we Brexiteers could borrow the German festivity of Reformation Day instead, and hope that it is.

Halland, East Sussex