SIR - In an attempt to curry favour with the Conservative Party membership Liz Truss has promised: “I will send more migrants to Rwanda”.
The whole scheme of transporting refugees and asylum seekers, many of them vulnerable, has already been widely criticised as probably illegal and certainly immoral. It is a stain on the national reputation of this country.
If there develops a bidding battle between Truss and Sunak as to who can transport more refugees then it shows up the leadership contest for what it is - an odious exercise in sucking up to right wing prejudices of the worst sort.
Our unwritten constitution is deeply flawed when it delegates to 160,000 or so pensionable, wealthy white males, mostly lacking any moral compass or scintilla of humanity, the choice of our next Prime Minister.
John Cole, Oakroyd Terrace, Baildon
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