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Truss will bring common sense to the top job

In response to Dan Hodges’ column last week about how the next Election will be won by anyone who offers us normality: yes, the country yearns for normality. But that is simply another way of saying that the country yearns for a leader with basic common sense.

We don’t want any more unpleasant surprises or bizarre decisions. We want a leader who gets on with the job. I believe that Liz Truss can do that.

P. Brown, Manchester

Reading Dan Hodges’ column makes me believe that Truss and Starmer believe doing what is necessary to secure an Election victory is more important than doing what is right for the people, whether it’s popular or not.

Hardly reassuring.

Harry Matthews, Kent

Hodges quotes a Labour strategist as saying the UK needs to replicate a ‘Biden strategy’, but the United States is a complete mess: division across society; deep culture wars; no economic strategy; and an opposition party certain to nominate Trump to stand again. That’s not a yardstick for us.

Lisa Mitchell, Woking

It doesn’t matter who you vote for, we get the same – and that’s the problem.

K. Smith, Brighton

Both leaders and, indeed, the country itself are completely at the mercy of global events. We’re about to enter the worst global macroeconomics situation in living memory, which doesn’t bode well for the incumbent governing party, as people will inevitably blame whoever’s in charge.

Labour, of course, will paint it all as a Tory failure. But the truth is that it doesn’t matter a jot who’s in charge. Nothing can stop what’s coming.

Paul Grant, Aberdeen

What is normality to this generation of lazy, woke, ecoprotesters, where no one wants to work extra hours, where able, out-of-work people turn down fruit-picking, where one can live happily off benefits in a free,

council-supplied home? It’s a lot different to my idea of normality.

Pat Thomas, Scunthorpe

Anyone who stops paying benefits to migrants would win a landslide at the next General Election.

Lily Davis, Liverpool

People claim that Keir Starmer is a patriot, but I just don’t see it. To me he is clearly someone who is trying his best to be someone he isn’t.

Surely the best indicator of his integrity is how he has acted in the past – all I can see is a transparent, sneering opportunist.

M. Field, Lancashire

Hopefully the new Government will put protecting our borders at the top of the list.

Mark Triggs, Southampton

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