Tim Shipman’s assessment of 2022 (“A crazy year in politics”, News, online, last week), confirms my opinion that Rishi Sunak has a good chance of re-election in 2024. He is intelligent and motivated and has his ego in check — a refreshing contrast after six disastrous years. The economy is likely to be looking up, and his steady approach has a chance of having delivered some gains. Good luck to him.
Peter Speirs, Surbiton
Hobbled by Brexit
Whatever Sunak’s merits — and I believe he does have some — he will for ever be shackled by his support for the unfolding disaster of Brexit. This will, in due course, morph from the “will of the people” into a huge electoral liability.
Mike Ball, Leamington Spa
MPs of little faith
Sunak should not put much faith in the support of his MPs. After all, 350 of them cheered Boris Johnson a week before he resigned; the same number cheered Kwasi Kwarteng for his mini-budget a few weeks later. Now they cheer him. Most of them deserve to lose their seats at the next election.
Neil Hughes, Wirral
Party’s over
The past year has led me to one conclusion: Brexit and Johnson have done for the Conservative Party, a party I supported for decades. Now, sadly, I have nowhere to go.
Marilyn Goodwin, Southampton
System failure
The broader lesson to be drawn from recent years concerns the state of our two main parties. Both have managed to elect leaders who, while wildly popular with members, were totally unsuited to political leadership: Johnson and Truss for the Conservatives; Corbyn for Labour. It is the parties themselves that need reform — or, at least, a reduction in the power they wield.
William Sheldon, Sliema, Malta
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