He should be reappointed, and MPs who don’t like him should, for the sake of the country, swallow their pride and get behind him. Mr Johnson has experience and was, just three years ago, elected by the country with an overwhelming majority. Now the Tory party may well elect another unsuitable leader without ability or experience. In self-destruct mode, the Tories then elected a leader who couldn’t cope and lasted just 44 days. It should never have got rid of Boris Johnson, and the hullabaloo over parties should have been squashed before it started. SIR – The mess the Tory party is in is entirely of its own making. Secondly, he has already demonstrated his courage in supporting Ukraine. SIR – Boris Johnson has two key advantages over his competitors.įirst, in 2019, he was voted into office by the public.
If he is re-elected, he will be the most divisive PM ever – not just among his party but across the country. Virtually nobody disagrees with this.īoris Johnson is clearly hoping for nomination – yet just a short time ago, under his leadership, dozens of ministers and MPs were queuing up to resign. SIR – The only way the Tory party can survive is if it unifies behind a single candidate. SIR – Approaching 89 years old, and having voted Tory all my life, I have two words of advice for our politicians: grow up. One evening, he sat me down and said: “Now, Ann, you have to realise that the Conservative Party always destroys its leaders.” SIR – My late husband Nick Edwards, later Lord Crickhowell, unexpectedly became MP for Pembrokeshire in 1970. I look forward to a day when a party I can support emerges from the ashes of this one. The country needs an election to bring this chaos to an end. There is no reason to believe things will change under the next leader. I struggle to fathom how many Tory MPs were selected to stand for Parliament by their local associations.Īs far as I can tell, the only coherent thing the party seems to value is the maintenance of its own power. The broken promises, the lies, the corruption and the clear contempt for the public make the party unfit for office. SIR – I am disgusted by how the Conservative Party has conducted itself in office over the past few years.Īs another dreadful PM departs, it is increasingly clear that the party itself is the problem – an unholy alliance of closet Liberal Democrats, disingenuous careerists, a handful of true conservatives who lack the competence to deliver their agenda and a healthy scattering of cranks. If and when people experience that, they might just be inclined to follow it. This country is crying our for an honest and courageous leader with some conviction.
Members of the public responding to the same question are focused on the need for strong leadership. SIR – Almost every MP I have seen being interviewed about the leadership election has been focused on choosing someone who can win the next general election and save their job. They were destroyed by her incompetence and hubris – and nothing else. The outgoing Prime Minister’s policies were not undermined by Tory MPs. SIR – David Price ( Letters, October 21) is badly mistaken. Irked Remainiacs, allied with the establishment and the Blob, caused this crisis, and are unable to produce a credible candidate to unite either their party or the country.
SIR – The current batch of Tory MPs has proved to be the worst on record. Such MPs may not be openly declaring this as their aim, but it is clear that this is what they are up to. That won’t happen while the party contains a significant number of members who still oppose Brexit and are determined to undermine any prime minister whose aim is to make it work. SIR – Iain Duncan Smith ( Comment, October 21) asks the Conservative Party to “relearn the virtues of unity”. Whoever becomes Prime Minister, the Conservative Party will be finished if members fail to rally round and create a united front. There are many employees in industry who do not particularly like their CEOs, yet they still work hard for the benefit of the company. They were not elected to destroy the Conservative Party but to support it as much as possible. They should serve regardless of who their boss is. SIR – Conservative MPs should remember that they were elected to serve their constituencies, and should do so to the best of their abilities.
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