Someone who has, over a century, been witness to the politics that have landed our country in its present sad state, both at home and abroad, is surely entitled by experience to at least attempt to persuade his fellow electors to save it from itself before it is too late. This, in my view, and that of nearly all of my family and respected friends and colleagues, involves calling back from retirement the only public figure who comes out of the past quarter-century with any lasting credit: Rory Stewart.
To succeed in this patriotic endeavour, we realise that we have somehow not only to re-recruit him, but to persuade the sensible members of the electorate to get rid of both the present Conservative and Labour parties and replace them with a younger membership more concerned with the wellbeing of the nation – their families and those of their friends – than their own temporary advantage. Perhaps our new monarch will reassume his prerogative and dismiss the prime minister supported by the present House of Commons with one of a different membership more representative of public opinion.
Prof John A Davis
Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire
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