Letter: 'Political fighting is the last thing the country needs'

Does he feel a party reduced to just 121 MPs (actually 19 per cent of the House of Commons) is too small to have its own leader?

The Conservatives don't see themselves as a small party and want to quickly restore their lost prominence. Indeed, their new leader tells us they are “critical to the success of our country”.

The Conservatives will have a very difficult job restoring their fortunes. The populist Reform UK party talk of replacing the Conservatives as the dominant right-wing party. The Conservatives will thus have to face opposition on two-front. As Conservatives will have widely differing views on a two-front programme, they may also be unable to prevent their own in-fighting.

Yet today political fighting is the last thing the country needs. The country has gone to the dogs. The cause of that is our two major political parties more intent on fighting each other for control of government than they are in actually governing sensibly.

I do not see that the Conservatives have learnt that lesson yet. Nor do I see that Geoffrey Brooking's Labour Party has learnt it either.

Dr Martin Rodger

Bloxworth Road,

Parkstone