The Tory leadership candidates (Explainer, 29 September) should be nicknamed after the cows in Cold Comfort Farm: Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless. Mix and match how you like; it really doesn’t make much difference.
Rod Bell
York
• Kemi Badenoch is a skilled politician, well-versed in the Trump playbook, who chooses her words with care. Her sniping at maternity pay (Report, 29 September) is designed to appeal to the Andrew Tate demographic of young men who think women get a better deal than they do. This is the fresh blood that Badenoch seems to be hoping to attract to the ageing Tory party. I bet she wins.
Hilary Cashman
Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham
