Letters | 9 August 2018

Why we love Boris

Sir: Stephen Robinson is right: Boris Johnson is not loathed outside the Westminster bubble (‘Brexit means Boris’, 4 August). The reason is simple — people can tell he loves the country and is prepared to fight for it. Jacob Rees-Mogg is also very popular for the same reason. Many of our politicians and political commentators seem to have nothing but contempt for the country, or at least the people who live in it.
Fullerton

Bromsgrove, Worcestershire

Virtue-signalling MPs

Sir: James Forsyth writes, ‘Both Labour and the Tories are being accused by their own MPs of abandoning the liberal centre’ (Politics, 4 August). He may be correct on Labour, but my impression is that the majority of Conservative supporters regard many of their MPs and, in particular, government ministers as the epitome of the liberal elite, worrying more about the human rights of criminals than about the society they were meant to protect, and spending their time virtue signalling on fashionable causes such as refugees and global warming.
Michael Staples

Seaford, East Sussex

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Why do the French hate J.D. Vance so much?

Sir: I have just read Judith Riches’s letter relating to Cosmo Landesman’s article ‘Problem Children’ (28 July) and I am quite simply appalled at the behaviour of the Churches Conservation Trust, which would appear to be run by atheists or children or both. This has nothing whatsoever to do with ‘conservation’.

For two decades I have attended a little Anglican church in Pau, south-west France, and because of the proximity of Total-owned gasworks we have a significant number of Nigerians in the congregation. They come to church as families and contribute enormously to the running of the Sunday School. Their children are beautifully behaved and if infants get fractious, they are taken out by a parent. After the service the children gather up all the hymn books and service sheets and put them neatly back on the shelves.