Inequality and despair bolster Reform UK in Kent

Folkestone, Kent. One reader writes of the sadness ‘many of us share as the attitudes of many in Kent turn increasingly nationalist’. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

John Harris’s visit to Kent exposed the contrast between aspirational new housing and the plight of asylum seekers living a frugal life in disused barracks (On a trip to Kent, I saw how politics is being shaped by the west’s growing hostility to outsiders, 28 September).

The article suggests that politics is being reshaped by hostility to outsiders, but does not address how this is being deliberately driven by the Reform UK-led council.