What worries me about the forthcoming election is not the character of Mr David Davies and Mrs Yvonne Murphy, but that of their respective party leaders.

When Boris told the BBC audience that the truth mattered to him they broke into contemptuous laughter, and for good reason. In 1984 when he lost out in his attempt, as a right-wing student to become President of the Oxford Union he simply switched sides, started spouting views more in line with the Social Democrats and then, in the next election, became President - a triumph that taught him that to gain power it’s best to tell people what they want to hear rather than what they need to hear. And, in my opinion, he has been doing the same ever since with regard to Brexit, rather than telling people the unpleasant truth that trade deals with the EU take five to seven years to complete, he has been saying it will take only eleven months. So, as both the Scots and the Irish, who voted to remain in Europe, see Boris flying towards the edge of a cliff with no safety net or trade deals in place, their calls for independence will inevitably become stronger.

And, as for Corbyn, he appears, like an old fashioned communist, to believe that the party can never be wrong, (hence his marked reluctance to apologise for the distress caused to Jews in his own party). And with regards to his creative thinking, his solution is to simply nationalise every problem industry rather than seek a more moderate solution that doesn’t risk bankrupting the country. And with regards to Brexit, as everyone has guessed, his refusal to declare what his own preference would be has more to do with the 60 per cent of Labour constituencies who voted to leave than with any feigned desire to act as neutral broker. Indeed, as his speech in the BBC’s leaders’ debate showed, he’s well aware of the immense damage that would be caused by us opting out of the customs union.

So with leaders who put personal ambition or their own party’s interests before country, I would strongly urge voters to take a moral stand and vote for the party whose leader they think is actually telling them the truth and who is prepared to own-up when they or their party make mistakes.

John Rogers (Monmouth)