Tory Majority?

SIR – Boris Johnson’s adviser Dominic Cummings was right to caution on Wednesday against expectations of a Conservative majority come December 12.

Beneath the surface, membership of the hard-Left political movement Momentum has been increasing, mostly among younger voters who can be expected to turn out in large numbers. Conversely the Young Conservatives have largely evaporated in recent decades, leaving the Conservative Party deprived of its energetic youth membership that once numbered over 100,000.

The effect of this change in the demographics of both parties is not to be underestimated.

John Pritchard
Ingatestone, Essex. Letters, Telegraph.