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SIR – The Conservatives’ future looks dire (Letters, May 6). How did they get to this after Boris Johnson delivered an 80-seat majority in 2019? Like it or not, it was Boris as a leader who appealed to voters, but his party chose to ditch him. It is no coincidence that the decline set in then – as they had no replacement with anything like his charisma and ability to get stuff done, despite his chaotic approach. Most Tory voters I know weren’t at all concerned by the nonsense of Partygate, which
SIR – Despite Sir Keir Starmer’s dizzy rhetoric about seismic swings and new horizons for Labour (telegraph.co.uk, May 3), the turnout in the Blackpool South by-election was only 32 per cent.
SIR – Recent letters have discussed inheritance tax (December 28). I am 86 years old. I was born and brought up in the Black Country, the eldest of four boys, whose father was a holder up in a steel rolling mill.