Geoffrey Wheatcroft (The natural party of government? After five PMs in seven years, the Conservatives seem all at sea, 25 August) wonders whether the Conservative party has run out of ideas. The inescapable fact of demographic change means that the number of individuals who wish they were living in the 1950s, and would choose to vote for a party of inequality, is reducing by the day.
The Conservatives’ renowned shapeshifting has brought them this far, but to become a party that believes in equality is a transformation that is beyond them. Whether the Tories are nice or nasty isn’t the issue. The real issue is that they are an anachronism.
Dr Dominic Horne
Ledbury, Herefordshire
