Ruth’s mission

Ruth Davidson is fast becoming the darling of the Conservative party. She is telling it like it is to her colleagues. She tells them to ‘get over their nervous breakdown and man up’.

It is a pity then that like David Cameron, who put the interests of the Conservative Party over that of the country, and the Union, when he called the Brexit referendum, that Ruth Davidson is also devoting her energies to saving Theresa May’s skin rather than addressing the major issues affecting the country, of which Brexit is number 1.

Ruth Davidson and many of her Conservative MPS voted to remain in the EU. Why is she not being true to her beliefs and using her influence to force a change in the Government’s hard Brexit position?

At last week’s Labour conference and fringe meetings, there were impassioned debates about Brexit and the NHS, education, housing, privatising rail, ending austerity, reforming tuition fees and changing Universal Credit.

The Conservatives, Ruth Davidson and her merry band are more concerned about Boris Johnson than trying to stay in the single market and the customs union. The Tories are in disarray and the country, its businesses, trade and jobs, are going down the pan.

PHIL TATE Craiglockhart Road, Edinburgh