Greenery, wokery and high taxes have made the PM an electoral liability
SIR – It is not partygate that turned Conservative voters against Boris Johnson. It is the wholesale betrayal of everything they stand for, with manifesto promises broken, higher taxation, increased net migration, failure to tackle grotesque wokery and a daft green energy policy that is destroying the countryside while artificially inflating energy prices.
Tory MPS who voted against him on Monday realise this tone-deaf nonsense makes Mr Johnson a liability, not an asset.
Will Curtis
Raydon, Suffolk
SIR – It seems that some Tory MPS have embarked on another act of regicide. They had a choice of winning the next election with Mr Johnson as leader, or of seeing him go and losing it.
Is a coalition of Labour and the SNP what they want?
Mark Robbins
Bruton, Somerset
SIR – It is both extraordinary and depressing that there is a cohort of shallow, self-seeking MPS who have caused this crisis in the Conservative Party, when the nation has just been shown and celebrated the immense value of national stability.
We are at war on many fronts. These MPS should be ashamed, and I hope their constituents dispose of them at the first available opportunity.
PD Richardson
Elsham, Lincolnshire
SIR – For goodness’ sake stop bickering. There is more charisma in Mr Johnson’s big toe than there is in any of the Tories who want him out. Dr Trevor Masters Southend-on-sea, Essex
SIR – The victory at the last election was in most part due to Mr Johnson’s popularity and the belief that he would deliver Brexit. This he achieved, in spite of the EU’S disgraceful meddling with Northern Ireland.
Our Prime Minister carefully steered us through the Covid-19 pandemic and implemented a successful vaccination programme. Britain is leading the world in supporting Ukraine militarily and morally, not caring much about Russia’s precious gas or Vladimir Putin’s ridiculous posturing, unlike some of our neighbours in Europe.
The Prime Minister now has to deal with jaded, largely Remainer, so-called Tories who would be prepared to replace him with one of their own ilk. The country will forget cake transgressions but would not forgive or forget the betrayers come the next general election.
Dr René Tayar
Tadworth, Surrey
SIR – When patriotic citizens gather outside St Paul’s to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee and loudly boo the PM, the game is up. The champagne is flat. Everything’s turned sour. The party’s over. And so will the Conservatives be if they cling cravenly to their thoroughly discredited leader.
David Kelly Broseley, Shropshire