SIR – In the 1980s and 1990s, my father was the Conservative deputy leader, and later leader, of Derbyshire County Council – then the most Marxist in the country.
SIR – In resigning as deputy chairmen of the Conservative Party over Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill (report, telegraph.co.uk, January 16), Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith highlighted the obvious: voters have not stopped being Conservative – it is the Conservative Party itself that has done so. In the past decade, the rate at which it has cynically betrayed its core voters has soared. Such betrayals now happen weekly. The few dozen MPs left with proper Conservative values would be best advised t
SIR – The Labour Party is threatening, if it wins power, to remove the charitable status of independent schools, forcing them to charge VAT on fees (Letters, December 2).