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.
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