Not a Boris fan

As Theresa May heads out of the Downing Street bunker for the last time it remains a great and mighty wonder how someone so inept, ill-suited and ill at ease, so devoid of authority, charisma or capacity, could remain there for so long.

What is truly alarming is that her successor is likely to be worse. The Boris may communicate better with a certain kind of Brit but his chutzpah isn’t a strategy. He was a disaster as foreign secretary and to the international community he’s a buffoon.

He hasn’t a clue how to cut a deal, nor how to proceed if none appears. It seems that the Tory Rump believes what we need in this crisis is Bertie Wooster. Trapped in the afterglow of the Second World War, they think the EU owes us something – no chance!

JOHN CAMERON Howard Place, St Andrew