Letters | 30 June 2012

Hunting for real Tories

Sir: It is interesting to note that more than 10 per cent (four) of the 39 Tory MPs who comprise the Free Enterprise Group, which your correspondent James Forsyth assures us is full of young radicals determined to lead a fightback from the Tory right (‘Next right’, 23 June), are committed to keeping the ban on fox-hunting. How can you be a right-wing Tory and be anti-hunting? If this is the best that the Tory right has to offer, then Ukip must be looking good.
Peter Holt
Wellington, Telford

Debt is the problem

Sir: Your leading article is misconceived (‘Summit of arrogance’, 23 June). The financial mess which is lazily and misleadingly labelled ‘eurozone crisis’ is actually a debt crisis which also affects the UK, the US, Japan and other advanced economies which are not part of the eurozone. These countries have in common with the peripheral nations of the eurozone either a history of profligate spending by irresponsible sovereign governments (as in Greece) or reckless lending by their banks (as happened in Ireland and Spain), or both.