This lockdown raises serious questions about the PM’S leadership skills
sir – Steve Baker MP (Comment, November 4) says that, while he is unable to support the second lockdown, he believes that the Prime Minister is “courageously acting against his own instincts to do what he thinks right in the public interest”.
I see nothing courageous in the Prime Minister’s action. He has taken the easy way out by relying, once more, on dodgy statistics.
Alan Quinton
Eastbourne, East Sussex
sir – I supported Boris Johnson during the Brexit campaign and the Tory leadership contest.
However, his decision to walk out of the Commons on Wednesday meant that he did not hear his predecessor telling him some home truths. He may have sent her a note apologising, but it seemed a lack of courtesy unbecoming a prime minister.
Philip Hall
Petersfield, Hampshire
sir – I would never have expected to find myself supporting Theresa May over Boris Johnson. What a difference a few months can make.
Charles Agg
York
sir – Has Rishi Sunak let the cat out of the bag?
Does furlough until March next year mean lockdown until then, too? Duncan Rayner
Sunningdale, Berkshire
sir – This time around, the Government should not ease the lockdown too soon. No one underestimates the devastation lockdowns cause – but repeated lockdowns are even worse for the economy. If it is necessary to extend the present one, that is what the Prime Minister should do.
The children can still have their toys from Father Christmas. The rest of us can take the necessary steps to suppress the virus this Christmas until a vaccine becomes available in the new year. Valerie Crews
Beckenham, Kent sir – This latest lockdown has not affected our ability to shop in supermarkets, either online or in store – so why are we already seeing pictures of empty shelves and shoppers leaving weighed down with lavatory paper?
It’s an absurdity that the supermarkets need to do more to stop. Dr Martin Henry
Good Easter, Essex
sir – I was in a queue outside a local wool shop on Wednesday. We soon established that it was considered a non-essential business and was going to be closed from Thursday.
Non-essential for what? I have recently spoken to a number of friends who are involved in knitting or crochet projects. These activities, even more common during lockdown, certainly seem to be essential for mental health – though I don’t imagine anyone in the Government knits, otherwise they might think differently about what is essential and what isn’t.
Andrea Bates
Enstone, Oxfordshire