Britain’s aspirational young have been left without a party to vote for

SIR – Who can young people in Britain vote for?

This Conservative Government seems intent on denying them the opportunity to buy their own homes, while making renting punitively expensive for them and confiscating their income in order to pay benefits to pensioners who, in many cases, already have more than enough money to live on.

The Liberal Democrats now appear to be a party that opposes building developments, so would also make it harder for the young to purchase houses. Labour, meanwhile, proposes penalising companies that might otherwise offer employment opportunities.

Previous generations saw generally improving living standards. The opposite is true for those currently of working age.

Ian Mackenzie

Preston, Lancashire

SIR – The Renters’ Reform Bill (“Tory MPS in backlash over Gove’s ‘war on landlords’”, report, May 15) favours coercion over incentive – an affront to Tory values. It will put a rocket under rents, as long-term tenancies require a risk premium, just like long-term bank loans. Many landlords will flee the market, compounding the squeeze on renters.

Instead, tax relief on their mortgages – whether or not they let through a company – could act as an incentive to owners to adopt a model tenancy agreement. This would contain long periods and flexible terms, of the kind that the new legislation seeks to impose.

That, surely, is the Tory way – to guide, rather than antagonise, by providing a realistic choice.

Nick St Aubyn

Dunsfold, Surrey

SIR – As a Conservative Party supporter, I am deeply disappointed by this Government’s performance.

With its substantial working majority, it should be implementing policies that have Tory values at their heart. Instead, however, we are getting weak government from a party that seems to be afraid of its own shadow. We have ineffective and expensive public services that cost a fortune to run – the NHS being a prime example. Spending on services must achieve value for money.

The Tories also face a leadership problem. They need a conviction politician who will stand up for core Conservative beliefs. If the party is unable to escape the atrophy by which it has been seized, it will deserve to suffer a devastating defeat at the general election.

Nigel Dyson

Alresford, Hampshire

SIR – The Conservative Party needs a leader with Boris Johnson’s selling skills, Liz Truss’s vision for tax and Rishi Sunak’s competence.

The only good news is that the Labour leader doesn’t possess any of these qualities either.

Don Cowie

Poole, Dorset