A Tory leader
SIR – As a long-term party member who campaigned hard for Brexit during the referendum, I suspect that I am not atypical. As such, I have only one question for candidates in the Tory leadership contest.
Given that our parliamentary majority including the DUP is now down to two, what alternative and imaginative solutions do you have to deliver a way out of the Brexit crisis?
Statements such as “Brexit means Brexit”; “We will leave on October 31 come what may” etc, insult the intelligence of party members in particular and the public generally.
We can all see that this is patently undeliverable and will, at best, put us right back in the Theresa May vortex and, at worst, lead to a general election that could well deliver electoral oblivion.
We now face a summer of hustings and debate, but I suspect that most party members are like me and only need the answer to this one question.
Whoever has the solution to this riddle surely deserves the keys to No 10. Cllr Anna Firth
Chairman, Sevenoaks Conservatives Sevenoaks, Kent
SIR – In 2016 the public voted to leave the EU, having been told that a deal would be negotiated.
Not having a deal will not be honouring that vote. Bob Horner
Leyton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
SIR – I am wondering whether “no deal” is the appropriate term for exiting the EU without a deal.
Surely any deal that saves this country £39billion is a very good deal indeed. Peter Brown
Henlow, Bedfordshire
SIR – Philip Johnston (Comment, May 29) says: “Jeremy Hunt is right to say that if it is a ‘no dealer’ like Boris Johnson, the probable outcome is a general election, because some Tories would refuse to accept him.”
But surely, if we ignore all the shenanigans that go on behind the scenes at Westminster, the process of electing a Tory leader is democratic.
Our elected MPS choose two candidates, then party members pick one, so how could any Conservative MP refuse to accept him? Bill Winward
Calne, Wiltshire
SIR – If Rory Stewart wants the opportunity to meet EU Leave voters (Allison Pearson, May 29), instead of going to the KFC in Barking perhaps he should speak to his constituents, who voted 55.2 per cent to leave in the EU referendum. Stephen Bartlett
Kirk Ella, East Yorkshire