It’s a pity that Liz Truss implemented her good ideas so incompetently

SIR – Liz Truss, who claims to have been “brought down by the Left-wing economic establishment” (report, February 5), was the first prime minister in decades to hold genuinely Conservative views.

The problem was that she proved to be absolutely terrible at communicating those views, and equally bad at implementing them – which leaves us where we are today. Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor, is seen as a safe pair of hands by the mandarins, who know he doesn’t have any original ideas and will simply agree with them. Britain’s current economic policy could have been devised by Gordon Brown on a bad day.

Continuing down this path will lead to the end of this Government, and perhaps even the end of the Conservative Party.

Charles Penfold

Ulverston, Cumbria

SIR – I am so pleased that Liz Truss has spoken out. I felt sure that her downfall was orchestrated by the powers that be, and her fate was finally sealed by Rishi Sunak and his allies.

I have always been a Conservative supporter, but cannot forgive the unseemly way in which the party has behaved. It needs to take a long, hard look at itself.

The contents of the “mini-budget” don’t look so unappealing now. Lesley Peters

Lamberhurst, Kent

SIR – Funny, I thought Ms Truss’s downfall came about because of unfunded tax cuts, and the drastic effect they had on our economy – in particular, by increasing the black hole that the Treasury had to fill from £30billion to £60billion. Ethel Hillier Exeter, Devon

SIR – Liz Truss’s reflections on her tenure as prime minister neglected to mention that many of her policy proposals were unfunded. Historians will surely take note of Lord Lawson’s warning at the time (Comment, August 3) about making tax cuts in an uncontrolled inflationary environment.

No mention, either, of the removal of Sir Tom Scholar, the permanent secretary to the Treasury; the absence of Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts on credibility and confidence; or the lack of supply-side reform in the mini-budget.

Nevertheless, I feel Ms Truss might still have some way to run in today’s political and economic vacuum. Roderick Mccrorie

Cupar, Fife

SIR – Even if the Government and Bank of England do nothing, inflation is likely to go on falling this year, so there would be no harm in next month’s Budget promising a cut in personal and business tax rates from April 6 2024. It would give us cause for optimism, boost confidence and serve as a much-needed Conservative response to our present gloom. Donald R Clarke Tunbridge Wells, Kent