The Tory leadership race should be abandoned and an election called - YP Letters

By YP Letters
Published 15th Aug 2022, 11:45 BST
From: Liz Finlayson, Colleton Row, Exeter.

The leadership contest between Truss and Sunak is illegitimate. It should be abandoned and an election called.

The mandate from the 2019 election was for Boris Johnson to ‘get Brexit done’ and to get levelling up done.

Both of those have been complete failures.

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Tory leadership race should be called off and an election called says reader.Tory leadership race should be called off and an election called says reader.
Tory leadership race should be called off and an election called says reader.

Rotting crops in farmers’ fields, huge lorry queues at Dover, the Northern Ireland Protocol fiasco leading to the UK breaking international law and becoming a rogue state, businesses losing competitiveness in Europe, the Australian and New Zealand trade deals which shaft UK farming are just some of the ways Brexit has been a disaster and Brexit did not get done.

Levelling up is a bigger joke. Billionaires have become over 70 per cent richer during the pandemic while ordinary workers stagnate and are told they must settle for well below inflation pay rises or they will cause an inflation spiral.

There is no such limitation on landlords who have felt free to put up rents well above inflation. Or MPs.

Or on executives like Sainsbury’s CEO who trebled his annual takings to £3.8m while denying a living wage to his workers.