The buck stops with Boris Johnson for the chaotic culture at No10
sir – Whether one is fed up with partygate or not, it appears that Downing Street is just completely chaotic.
Do we really want Boris Johnson in charge of the country during what are likely to be very dark days ahead, when he presides over such a culture?
Lady Dutton
Sherborne, Dorset
sir – For those of us crying out for a government that can offer ethical and inspirational direction, Sue Gray has provided explicit ammunition.
Partygate itself is damning – but No 10’s culture of routine drinking and carousing is devastating.
Suitcase deliveries of liquor have come to symbolise an administration beset by alcohol-fuelled diversions. Britain’s leadership has never seemed so inadequate.
Cameron Morice
Reading, Berkshire
sir – With the latest outpourings over partygate, we have surely summited the Everest of hypocrisy. The leading climber is, as usual, the BBC.
Partygate is no Watergate, and ordinary people are fed up with all the virtue-signalling. It’s time to move on to things that matter.
RB Skepper
Sudbourne, Suffolk
sir – As a Tory voter and canvasser, I hope Conservative MPS can be mature enough to back Boris Johnson. He has apologised and it’s time to move on.
The general election is but two years away. Tory MPS risk snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and returning Labour to power if the topic of leadership change isn’t put aside. Dominic Shelmerdine
London SW3
sir – The Prime Minister may have been right about Brexit, Covid and Ukraine; but although he is good at presenting disadvantage as advantage and defending the indefensible, his erratic judgment, flawed character and moral bankruptcy should disqualify both him and his misguided supporters from office. Alexander Hopkinson-woolley Bembridge, Isle of Wight
sir – Why was Boris Johnson able to toast his adviser Lee Cain goodbye with a glass of wine while my family were unable even to have a cup of tea – let alone a wake – to say goodbye to my lovely mother on November 5? Caroline Trigg
Solihull
sir – There are two questions about the photographs you published on Tuesday of Boris Johnson caught with glass raised: who took them, and why? Alan Robertson
Ladybank, Fife
sir – I have only skimmed Sue Gray’s report but the most deplorable aspect for me is the repeated use of the word “behaviours” (plural) by someone who is not a clinical psychologist.
Joseph Kerrigan