Letter: Local elections: only a period of re-evaluation in the wilderness can save the Conservatives

Sir: You suggest today ('Vote on potholes, not Portillo' 5 May) that there are more appropriate ways to register mid-term discontent than a protest vote. What exactly do you have in mind? Dare one hope for something more radical? A re-run of 1968 perhaps]

Yours faithfully,

HUGH ROBERTS

Westhall, Suffolk

5 May