Ministerial Audis

SIR – Liz Truss appears not to care what make of car the prime minister is driven in (report, September 1). Well, she should.

Buying Audis sends out a powerful message that the Government doesn’t want to promote British industry, doesn’t care that it is supporting a country that has been tentative in standing up to Vladimir Putin, and doesn’t want to support British taxpayers.

It’s disgraceful. She has lost my support.

Malcolm High

Hampole, South Yorkshire

SIR – If buying foreign-made cars for British government ministers isn’t woke, I don’t know what is.

Ian Cribb

Poole, Dorset

SIR – You suggest that the proposal to buy armour-plated Audis is due to the lack of a suitable Jaguar model.

The problem is that very few manufacturers make bullet-proof cars, which, by their nature, are very heavy and need to be designed and built from scratch to retain engineering integrity and reliability.

The Jaguars commissioned by David Cameron were not built by Jaguar, but by an independent specialist supplier. This solution can never produce the quality an original factory-build vehicle offers.

I would guess that the Audis the Met Police are considering come straight from the factory, as do BMW and Mercedes versions. That is why the Met opted to provide Tony Blair with a heavily armoured 7 Series BMW when he retired from office and no longer had access to a ministerial British car. Timothy James

Courteenhall, Northampton SIR – May I respectfully suggest that the government vehicle fleet could now be supplied by JCB?

This would be apt, considering the demolition of many aspects of British life that the Conservative Party has overseen since being in government, while not being in full control and allowing the policies of the Opposition to be implemented across the board during the tenure of the last three PMS.

It would also be fitting for ministers