Tory Party hijacker

SIR – Boris Johnson has hijacked the Conservative Party in the same way that Jeremy Corbyn hijacked Labour.

With the Prime Minister heaping tax rise on tax rise and providing pocket money for all, it feels as though it was Mr Corbyn who was elected in 2019.

Mr Johnson hits business hard with increased corporation tax and windfall taxes. Not content that no part of the public sector is performing properly, he now wants to cripple the engine of our economy: the private sector.

I have difficulty recognising in him any Conservative vision or values. His net-zero stance has become an unaffordable religion. It is about time those around him submitted letters to move him off to pastures new.

Idris White

Sevenoaks, Kent

SIR – Jonathan Sumption’s analysis of partygate captures the instincts of the British people – instincts that will guide how they vote in the next general election (“Partygate is really about leadership, lies and the death of trust”, Comment, May 29).

Despite the attractions of Boris Johnson, voters see he does not have the integrity to be our prime minister. If he leads the Conservatives into the next election, they will be destroyed. The Conservative Party needs to snap out of its torpor and find a new leader. Philip Scott

Devizes, Wiltshire

SIR – It’s hardly surprising that so many people think that the Conservatives have lost their way when they are led by a man who achieved everything he had ever wanted the moment that he became Prime Minister.

John Stewart

Terrick, Buckinghamshire