After reading about the dehumanising abuse that women in politics face on social media (‘It could be your nextdoor neighbour’: how female MPs cope with misogynistic abuse, 17 February), I was outraged to read that the former Conservative party chairman Sir Jake Berry had said that Liz Truss’s political interventions “should be like sex in a long and happy relationship: infrequent but anticipated with glee” (Report, 17 February). It seems that some politicians don’t even recognise the sexist abuse they inflict on women in their own party. Politicians should reflect the changes they are elected to deliver and be held accountable if they do not.
Liz Mason
Trowbridge, Wiltshire
