Macron’s fate reveals the threat from the Left

sir – Too-clever-by-half Conservative strategists have recently put it about that it will be a good thing for the Tory Party to lose the next election, so it can “refresh itself ” in opposition. Reports in the Telegraph show the utter stupidity of this notion.

Europe breathed a sigh of relief when Emmanuel Macron won the French presidential election. Now Jean-luc Mélenchon’s insurgent Left-wing coalition has hobbled Mr Macron by removing his parliamentary majority.

In America, Joe Biden was elected on the promise of bipartisan unity and a return to normality after the incessant drama of the Trump years, but Nile Gardiner (Comment, June 19) reports that the Biden administration now “offers the American people only more Big Government socialism, extremist and racially divisive woke ideology, open borders, striking weakness on the world stage, and a relentless vision of US decline”.

The lesson is that behind every supposedly sombre, sensible centrist leader lurk viciously belligerent far-left militants poised to blow past bewildered politicians and hijack the agenda.

Short-sighted Conservatives who have been made complacent by Sir Keir Starmer’s apparent “dullness” and think that his Labour government would not be so bad have forgotten that Jeremy Corbyn has not actually left Parliament. His legion of Corbynites consider themselves robbed of their revolution in 2019, and their rage at their destiny denied has only made them meaner and more extreme. In the next election they’ll be back with a vengeance.

The election in 2024 will be the most dangerous for Britain in decades. It is imperative that Conservatives throw all that they have into winning. Robert Frazer

Salford, Lancashire

sir – From Macron to Micron. Clive Williams

Coedpoeth, Denbighshire