Dear the parents/guardians of Andrea Jenkyns (age 49 years and 5 months),
I am concerned that Andrea’s most recent piece – her no-confidence letter to the Prime Minister – does not reflect her true abilities, and given her experience as both Secretary of State for Skills and Secretary of State for Education, I suspect Andrea may not be trying her best here.
Andrea’s letter starts well: I enjoyed her use of repetition in the short simple sentence, ‘Enough is enough.’ However, I’m afraid this is not enough in itself. In the next sentence she writes, ‘we have a party leader that’ when it really should be ‘we have a party leader who‘ (Andrea has always had problems with pronouns), and the repetition of ‘party’ and ‘reject’ is perhaps unnecessary (and not, perhaps, what she wants the reader to focus on in these turbulent times).
The sentence makes no sense
In her second paragraph I appreciate that she is trying hard in her vocabulary with ‘Machiavellian’, but the problem is that she has focused so much on this that she has forgotten to put a verb in the main clause.
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