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January 25, 2024
SIR – Sir Simon Clarke thinks that changing the leadership of the Conservative Party yet again could result in an election victory (“Rishi Sunak has gone from asset to anchor for the Tories”, Commentary, January 15). If there is some miraculous saviour waiting in the wings to salvage this tumultuous group of people and instil some sense of loyalty, trustworthiness and ability to govern in them, that person is well and truly hidden.
December 14, 2022
SIR – I wonder if striking workers ever give a second thought to those whose businesses they will destroy in pursuit of their selfish – and, in most cases, unrealistic – claims.
November 20, 2021
SIR – With all the leaks it was known that the Leeds HS2 leg was to be scrapped, but I remained hopeful until the last moment that the new proposals were not true.
October 31, 2021
SIR – The Prime Minister’s and the Chancellor’s policies, which underpinned Wednesday’s Budget, of high expenditure and high taxation most closely resemble those adopted by Edward Heath and Anthony Barber in the early 1970s.
May 10, 2021
Letters: The sophistry behind SNP demands for a second independence vote Letters to the Editor © pool/getty Nicola Sturgeon - pool/getty SIR – Historians looking back will think the British Government mad if it accedes to SNP demands for another independence referendum. With a 63 per cent turnout and 47.7 per cent of the vote, only 30 per cent of the Scottish electorate and 2.7 per cent of the British electorate actually supported this demand. The idea that, so soon after g...