Those blindly telling us to believe in Boris – it’s time to learn from the past

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Voicing his confidence in Boris Johnson, Iain Duncan Smith has urged us not to judge Johnson by what he’s done in the past but by what he’ll do in the future.

If anyone’s interested in judging me now, I shall be ending world poverty and colonising Mars in the future.

Meanwhile, from the mastermind of universal credit, this is a novel way of solving the overcrowding of jails as, I believe, they’re almost entirely filled with people who’ve been judged on what they did in the past.

Felicity Marsh
Bourton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire

Get the Tories out

Sajid Javid is quite right. We do need a new kind of leader. One that’s not a Tory.

David Neale
Birmingham

Go on, Tories! Vote Boris and be sure to lose the next general election.

Lynda Aylett-Green
Matlock, Derbyshire​

The most undemocratic vote of them all

It is frequently said by Brexiteers that a second referendum is undemocratic, unlike presumably the first one. However, what is really undemocratic is the fact that our last, and soon to be next, prime minister is chosen exclusively by a very small number of in the main elderly, unelected citizens who happen to be members of the Tory party.

Geoff Forward
Stirling

Leading us over the cliff

Reading that the opposition’s motion to prevent the government taking us out of the EU without a deal have been defeated has called to mind the remark in Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons: “If not duffers, won’t drown”.

Apparently there are more duffers than not duffers in parliament, so drowning is now highly likely.

Lynda Newbery​
Bristol

Brexit is incompatible with combating climate change

How can Theresa May’s legacy, as mentioned in your article, be to make Great Britain the world leader in climate change when the the UK is leaving the customs union with the EU?

Surely the UK making its own trade deals with more distant partners such as Australia, New Zealand and America, rather than its closest neighbours in the EU, increases the country’s carbon footprint considerably to the detriment of the fight against climate change.

Janina Doroszkowska​
Marlow, Buckinghamshire​