SO Poor Dr Liam Fox has been eliminated in round one of the Tory leadership contest (“Crabb quits battle and backs May for party leadership”, The Herald, July 6).
Sharing a Brexit stage with Nigel Farage was maybe not the pinnacle of political astuteness. One can only conclude that the majority of the Tory Party in Westminster can recognise a toxic brand, and have shot their not so wily fox.
Dr Andrew Highton,
2 Oxengate Cottages, Elsrickle, Lanarkshire.
I CAN’T help but notice the irony of the Conservative Party’s method of choosing a leader, with their MPs voting in a committee room of the Palace of Westminster. These are the same political zealots who have spent the past 30 years outlawing Trade Unions from holding workplace ballots.
Roddy MacNeill,
115 Quebec Drive, East Kilbride.
GAVIN Fleming (Letters, July 5) slightly misses the more relevant point with regard to the risk of Jeremy Corbyn remaining leader of the Labour Party. If he stays, Labour risks becoming a party with little or no strength at all in Scotland. That may condemn us to almost permanent SNP rule – a prospect that many will indeed view with increasing horror.
Steph Johnson,
71 Hughenden Gardens, Glasgow.
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