Who will the Tories saddle us with next – prime minister Nadine Dorries?

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Liz Truss is under pressure after just weeks in the top job (UK Parliament/Getty)

The prime minister says we don’t need a general election, but a glance at recent history shows that those who have chosen our last few prime ministers are getting steadily worse at it.

The only one who did well in a general election recently did so because of the lie that he could “get Brexit done” – by ignoring facts, lying about the Irish Sea border, and kicking parts of it down the road for a successor to attempt to sort out – and he was eventually deposed by his own cabinet resigning en masse because of his (wait for it) propensity for lying.

So who’s next in line for Tory leader? Jacob Rees-Mogg? Nadine Dorries? Surely the bottom was dredged some time ago.

Katharine Powell

Neston

Undemocratic

How are Kwasi Kwarteng’s unfunded tax cuts – that experts say do not add up – going to help junior doctors who are forced to abandon university because they cannot afford to buy food, and pay extortionate rents and soaring energy bills while working long hours in hospitals?

How are the chancellor’s plans that caused the debt to spiral out of control going to help the many patients on NHS backlogs forced to pay for life-saving operations and treatments out of their own pockets when they are already struggling financially?

How is his mini-Budget, the one that made the sterling drop to an all-time low against the dollar and the UK’s economy be compared to those of developing countries, going to help the many undiagnosed patients who die unnecessarily because they could not see a doctor, as doctors are leaving the NHS?

Liz Truss is also replacing green energy with fossil fuel projects that will damage wildlife, the environment and our health.

We did not vote for this! How can we call the UK a democracy when the prime minister can govern without the people’s consent?

Jeannette Schael

Tadley

King Charles’s coronation

I do not resent what will be a very small percentage of my personal tax going towards the watered-down coronation. I prefer to think of it as a contribution to the tourist and hospitality industries. They desperately need a boost, and will certainly benefit from the event.

One thing Britain does really well is our national and ceremonial events and which always bring people together. Who won’t be ready to party after the long hard winter we are promised? Bring it on!

Gillian Cook

Market Harborough

A continuation

Liz Truss is not “trashing” 12 years of Conservative rule, but delivering the “coup de grace” to a country that has been consistently impoverished in every way during that same period. Well done Tories!

Joanna Pallister

Durham City

A lesson for us all

Our present predicament sent me rushing back to Traitor’s Purse the 1941 thriller by Margery Allingham with its key character Lee Aubrey.

As the denouement tells us, Aubrey’s “mistaken belief in his own superiority cut him off from reality”. Hence, he failed to comprehend “the enormity of his sin”. This was to attempt to “smash (their) existing economy and create (a) chaos” leaving “the economic life on the country on an entirely new basis”.

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This being written well before the Bretton Woods system, the IMF could not have intervened.

A lesson for us all – I wonder what it is?

Alan Hallsworth

Hampshire

Future students

I understand that Kwasi Kwarteng was awarded a PhD in economic history from the University of Cambridge for his thesis on “Political thought of the recoinage crisis in 1695-7”.

I wonder if at some time in the distant future, another PhD student will write a thesis on “Political thought of the mini-Budget crisis in 2022”?

John Coppendale

Cambridge