Lady Dutton News Today

SIR – In resigning as deputy chairmen of the Conservative Party over Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill (report, telegraph.co.uk, January 16), Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith highlighted the obvious: voters have not stopped being Conservative – it is the Conservative Party itself that has done so. In the past decade, the rate at which it has cynically betrayed its core voters has soared. Such betrayals now happen weekly. The few dozen MPs left with proper Conservative values wo...

SIR – I share Alan Rogers’s frustration (Letters, August 13) at the absence of energy from a list of policy priorities in a Conservative Party questionnaire for members – presumably for the benefit of our next prime minister.

SIR – The polar division within the Tory party is painfully demonstrated in the conflicting aims of the two leadership candidates, neither of whom has demonstrated any of the qualities needed to unify that party.

SIR – Whether one is fed up with “partygate” or not, it appears that Downing Street is just completely chaotic.