Theresa May's Cabinet doesn't need any more inexperienced jokers in it

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The Prime Minister leads her first cabinet meeting of the new year following a reshuffle (Getty)

With regard to the new appointments in the latest government reshuffle, Philip Davies MP said: “It certainly does not do anyone any favours to promote people who are not ready for promotion just because of their gender or race.” Quite. One would have hoped that lesson had been learnt after the previous appointments of Boris Johnson, Chris Grayling, Jeremy Hunt, David Davis and Liam Fox.

Julian Self
Milton Keynes

Newsreaders are setting a bad example to the country

I would be interested to know why it is that in these times, when we are all supposed to be aware of our impact on the environment, the vast majority of news and other TV presenters are wearing clothing which is not suitable for the current cold season.

I presume that the studios are heated to a high degree with corresponding impact on financial and environmental costs. Surely the TV companies could rectify this by encouraging their employees to wear pullovers. This would save them money and set a good example for the rest of us.

Jim Stark
Address supplied

Brandon Lewis should not have been promoted

Is the Brandon Lewis who has just be promoted to the Cabinet as chairman of the Conservative Party the same Brandon Lewis who as Housing Minister refused to insist that buildings should have sprinkler systems fitted? Why, of course it is!

Coming hard on the heels of the Toby Young affair, is Theresa May still surprised that most sensible people still consider the Conservatives as the “nasty party”?

Nigel Groom
Witham

Who knew Scotland experienced ice during winter?

In a recent interview, Nicola Sturgeon, rather than admit to the SNP’s 10-year mismanagement of the NHS, blames missed waiting time targets on black ice and that a lot of people have had flu. Well, knock me down with a feather – that’s entirely unpredictable during a Scottish winter, isn’t it? Even with the generosity of the Barnett Formula, the SNP manages to fail our sick and vulnerable.

But I guess we should be grateful – it’s a change from Sturgeon blaming Westminster.

Martin Redfern
Edinburgh

Hope for the Tories is sinking fast

I looked at your cartoon this morning with wry amusement. I think it’s not so much rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as wiping them down with a damp cloth.

Roger Stevenson
Torfaen

May is not fit to be prime minister

Lord Adonis is right when he describes Brexit as “a dangerous, populist and nationalist spasm” being foolishly pursued by the Prime Minister.

What on earth is quivering Theresa May trying to achieve in her tenure as premier? She has the look of a neurotic, assistant librarian who has been given the job of handling a full-scale meltdown at a nuclear power station.

As a staunch EU Remainer, now eerily mutated into Nigel Farage’s Brexit-spouting ventriloquist’s dummy, her contradictory doggedness in persisting with the UK’s nonsensical leaving of the EU is both comical and foreboding, particularly as recent opinion polls clearly show that the increasing majority of Brits now want to remain in the EU.

Does not even the most incompetent motorist turn back if he – and most of his passengers – realise they have taken the wrong road?

Howard Henry Smith
Vale of Glamorgan