Three cheers for Justine Greening (May reshuffle in disarray as Greening quits, 9 January). This northern, comprehensive-school-educated woman clearly understands that May’s grammar school policy ought to be called, what it would be for the majority, her secondary-modern school policy. Her replacement? A grammar school boy from Cheshire who studied PPE at Oxford. Just what we need.
Martin Brayne
High Peak, Derbyshire
• Government reshuffle: man refuses to leave his job, and gets his own way (Jeremy Hunt). Woman refuses to leave her job, and is sacked (Justine Greening). Same old Tories.
Michael House
London
• Rory Stewart to be minister of state at the Department of Justice? Hang on a minute – isn’t he the man who said the only way to deal with the British citizens who went to fight with Isis was to kill them all in Syria? Is this the sort of justice we can now expect from this Tory government?
Adam Leys
London
• With Conservative membership dwindling to a derisory 70,000, most of them elderly, the party is literally dying. Changing the chairs on the Titanic can no more attract the young than it can avoid Brexit icebergs. The Conservatives’ passion for austerity is a heartless legacy that has failed. At least there’s some good news in the gloom.
Colin Rossini
Dovercourt, Essex
• Number of departments of state renamed: two. Number of new party vice-chairmen appointed: nine. Number of underperforming secretaries of state sacked: nil. Number of real-world problems resolved: no chance.
Les Bright
Exeter
• Reshuffled pack yields a full house of jokers.
John Stone
Thames Ditton, Surrey
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