Unkept Tory promises
SIR – Both Conservative leadership candidates were members of the Government that published the 2019 election manifesto. Why should anyone believe their promises today? Martin Smith
Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire
SIR – We now live in a complex and over-regulated nation and people’s expectations have been made so high that it is impossible for a government to deliver fully at any level.
Yet false promises continue unabated, currently by the reckless Conservative Party leadership candidates. The result of this culture is permanent dissatisfaction and the further annihilation of self-reliance. Guy de la Bédoyère
Welby, Lincolnshire
SIR – If Rishi Sunak pledges a 4 per cent income tax cut because he is under a bit of pressure from Liz Truss, how much would he reduce it by if he became prime minister and Britain faced a big national challenge? Simon Mcilroy
Croydon, Surrey
SIR – Mr Sunak pledges a 4 per cent tax cut by the end of the next Parliament.
So it’s if, if and if. If he is in, I’m out. Geoffrey Reynolds
Kehelland, Cornwall
SIR – Am I alone in finding distasteful the stream of ministers and former ministers toadying up to Liz Truss now she looks a racing certainty?
Jasper Archer
Wilton, Wiltshire