Brian Pegnall News Today

SIR – Despite Sir Keir Starmer’s dizzy rhetoric about seismic swings and new horizons for Labour (telegraph.co.uk, May 3), the turnout in the Blackpool South by-election was only 32 per cent.

Plus: Starmer on gender; ageing Biden’s plans to stand; the SNP’s war on the countryside; and the return of Cumberland and Westmorland

SIR – What is going on?

SIR – When I heard that Kemi Badenoch had been eliminated from the Conservative leadership contest, I felt more than a pang of disappointment.

SIR – Women of my generation (I am 65) had to fight very hard to be taken seriously in the workplace and the wider world.