Letters: Disillusioned Tories should think long and hard before backing Reform aol.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from aol.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SIR – Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative Party’s 1922 Committee, would like the choice of leader to be removed from party members and entrusted to MPs (Letters, May 1).
SIR – The idea that voting for Reform UK could result in the party replacing the Conservatives in the longer term (Letters, April 29) is a fantasy. The electoral arithmetic simply doesn’t work that way, and the suggestion that we should regard a decade of Labour government as a price worth paying is glib. Labour’s cultural and social agenda is diametrically opposed to the worldview of those drawn to Reform. I would advise anyone considering supporting this party to read Hilaire Belloc’s poem Jim