Letters: The horse that brings hope for the future

Conservative approaches

Sir: Matthew Parris (‘My idea of a true Conservative’, 17 June) makes a reasonable case for small c conservatism, but he’s wrong about Brexit and he’s wrong about Trussonomics being clearly unconservative. ‘Brexit come what may’ was the natural small-c reaction to the creation and evolution of an undemocratic EU superstate which (and we must take them at their word) was set upon ‘ever closer union’, the logical end state being a federal Europe and severe limitation of self-determination. No conservative would instinctively prefer foreign governance, even if it appeared at the outset to be benign. Trussonomics proposed short-term borrowing to fund tax cuts in order to recreate an enterprise economy; economic growth would allow the budget to become balanced and in due course reach surplus to allow national debt to be reduced. Rishinomics appears to have no such ambition.

Alasdair Ogilvy

Stedham, West Sussex