I AGREE wholeheartedly with Jesse Norman MP when he brands the speech by Robert Jenrick as “lazy, mendacious, simplistic tripe” (MP blasts would-be-leader, October 10).

This criticism is brave in that he criticises a person who may well become the leader of his party.

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It is a symptom of the depths to which the Conservative Party has sunk, at least at a national level, that someone should be in the running for leader who is so clearly unsuited for that post.

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Jenrick, who has a mansion in Herefordshire, appears to subscribe to the Groucho Marx philosophy: “Those are my principles…if you do not like them I have others”.

I am not a Conservative but recognise that a healthy democracy requires an opposition party or parties that are principled and consistent, adjectives that I cannot apply to Mr Jenrick.

JOE COCKER

Leominster