Straight to the POINT

TO ALL those who put their deeply ingrained family tradition on hold and voted Tory for the first time for the sake of us all — thank you.

MARIANNE BARTRAM, Sherborne, Dorset.

BORIS JOHNSON has just received his best Christmas present. However, Santa needs to bring two more: a trip to the barbershop and a shirt that remains tucked inside his trousers.

PIERS MINALL, Leverington, Cambs.

WAS Diane Abbott showing off her politics by wearing two left shoes?

PHIL NORTH, Brigg, Lincs.

HAS Diane Abbott got a pair of right foot shoes at home?

BRIAN PEDDER, Liss, Hants.

TONY BLAIR, John Major and Lord Heseltine should follow the example of David Cameron and Theresa May and be silent for ever more.

RICHARD WILLIAMS, Bristol.

HELL hath no fury like the nation scorned.

HELEN ROWLAND, Harwich, Essex.

LEN McCLUSKEY complains Jeremy Corbyn’s metropolitan world view alienated Labour’s Northern heartlands. Unite members might wish he had realised this before contributing their money to Labour’s campaign fund.

DAVID EASTWOOD, Bicester, Oxon.

IRONICALLY, it looks as if we now have a strong and stable government.

JOHN WHAPSHOTT, Westbury, Wilts.

THE third of those eligible who did not vote should hang their heads in shame.

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