SIR – What is amazing to most unbiased observers is not how the Tories gained power in 2010 on the back of a myth that put the then balance of payments deficit down to the Labour party’s profligate spending (rather than to a wider European recession, fuelled from financial malpractice in the States, that allowed an unscrupulous banking industry to make fortunes for the few) but how, for the next five years, to a man, Tory MPs were allowed to preface every interview, question, note and crotchet, on any subject, with the same conceited lie.

Fast track to 2015, they were still doing the same.

Now conveniently forgetting their pledge to balance the books in a parliamentary term, promising yet another five years of unnecessary austerity measures that will fall, once again, on the neediest as the welfare budget is laid waste on the altar of tax avoidance and evasion and without a shred of evidence that their trumpeted but unsubstantiated two million apprenticeships were bona fide or their vainglorious boast that unemployment is on the wane other than in the South of England, they have succeeded in securing a second term in government. Spin-masters supreme.

It will surely end in tears.

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