Yes, the PM should resign – not because of the parties but for his betrayal of Tory voters
SIR – There are understandable calls for the Prime Minister to resign following revelations about activity in Downing Street during national Covid lockdowns (Letters, May 27).
However, surely the reason he should resign is because he has betrayed the people who voted Conservative at the last election.
Higher taxes, windfall taxes, cost-of-living subsidies (or bribing people with their own money), together with excessive borrowing – none of these fit with my understanding of fundamental Conservative policies.
Ian Mackenzie
Preston, Lancashire
SIR – I have never seen a Tory government reward hard work by increasing taxes at rates not known for decades, and fail to reward corporate investment in the future by hitting British companies with a windfall tax.
Come the next election, what is the real choice ? Vote Labour or vote Conservative and still get Labour? Kurt Mayer
Billericay, Essex
SIR – Let’s hope the Chancellor isn’t planning to use the council-tax system again to provide his new cost-of-living rebate.
Down here, in ultra-green Brighton, we’re still waiting for the first one, unveiled in February. If the process is repeated, the energy crisis may be over by the time the rebate arrives. Martin Higham
Hove, East Sussex
SIR – Boris Johnson has invented a new no-fault concept that most of his MPS have sadly and stupidly embraced, namely that of no-fault responsibility.
The ramifications of this are profoundly detrimental for all of us. Dr Peter Wynarczyk Newcastle-upon-tyne
SIR – Am I alone in being someone who lost a loved one during lockdown but still understands that No 10 is a place of work and therefore people gathered there on occasion?
Members of family from disparate locations not being able to meet up for a funeral is an entirely different scenario from people mixing and mingling every day because they worked together.
Margaret Elson
Guildford, Surrey
SIR – Whatever has happened to our country? Where has the importance of telling the truth gone?
We used to pride ourselves on having high morals. This is clearly not the case in many circles any more. Tina Berry
Worsley, Lancashire