Tory victory in doubt

SIR – Boris Johnson’s adviser Dominic Cummings was right to caution on Wednesday against expectations of a Conservative majority come December 12.

Beneath the surface, membership of the hard-Left political movement Momentum has been increasing, mostly among younger voters who can be expected to turn out in large numbers. Conversely, the Young Conservatives have largely evaporated in recent decades, leaving the Conservative Party deprived of its energetic youth membership that once numbered more than 100,000.

The effect of this change in the demographics of both parties is not to be underestimated. John Pritchard

Ingatestone, Essex

SIR – The Tories are in danger of playing the election game too cautiously. Small-state conservatism versus drab Marxism should be easy to sell, but the message is not being hammered home with enough vigour. Brian Pegnall

Falmouth, Cornwall

SIR – According to the former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove, regarding Jeremy Corbyn and his aides, “none of them would ever have been allowed to work in our national security agencies because they would have been disqualified.”

Let’s not be taken in by plausible offers to the underprivileged. Martin Simpson

Newtown, Montgomeryshire

SIR – Jeremy Corbyn is not prepared to stand up for the Jewish community as it faces intimidation from Islamists and from the far Left.

His political priorities and his hunger for power override any pretension to creating a fair society. Gerald Heath

Corsham, Wiltshire