My 83-year-old neighbour got here for tea final week, however apologised for having to go away in a rush. “I have to test how my hotpot supper is cooking,” she mentioned. “It’s on the bonfire I’ve constructed from backyard clippings.” That’s heating and consuming in 2022 in Thérèse Coffey’s constituency.
Mary Clarke
Saxmundham, Suffolk
Your article describes the Tory MP Robert Largan’s seat, Excessive Peak in Derbyshire, as a “pink wall seat” (Tory MPs inform Truss: sack Kwarteng or face mutiny, 28 September). It most definitely isn’t. Over the 40 years that I’ve lived right here, Excessive Peak has resembled a bellwether constituency, and has voted Tory way over it has Labour. Hopefully the present shenanigans would possibly lead it to return a Labour MP within the close to future.
Sara Shaw
Glossop, Derbyshire
Re Nick Boles’s article on the intellectually self-enclosed relationship between the prime minister and chancellor (I used to be a Tory MP, however Truss and Kwarteng have satisfied me to vote Labour, 29 September), often when Tory politicians begin inflicting critical issues, males in gray fits are tasked to kind issues out. In circumstances of folie à deux, nevertheless, males in white coats have been discovered to be a greater wager.
Prof Alan Costall
Portsmouth