Climate activists are trying to preserve life on this planet

Climate activist groups like Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion are taking action not just to prevent loss of life – but also to prevent the loss of this world and the natural habitats that sustain all of us.

This is what should be recognised by everyone. We need to change our thought process and stop our use of fossil fuels before we destroy the planet and all life on it. At the current rate of destruction, there will be nothing left for our offspring in the near future.

We will not achieve change with the current government, who have gone back on the commitment to preserve this world we live in, and who bring nothing but shame to our country.

Mike Coomber

Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, Kent

With the rate of inflation at 10.1 per cent, disabled people and those on lower incomes are being hit hard by the cost of living crisis. The government must not U-turn on its commitment to increase benefits in line with inflation. If the government merely raises benefits in line with earnings (by just 5.4 per cent) and not by the rate of inflation, it will push more disabled people into poverty. Across the UK, 900,000 households with a disabled person on universal credit will be at least £385 worse off per year

The chancellor said he wanted to “prioritise the needs of the most vulnerable”. In May, the government committed to raising benefits in line with inflation. The government must stick to its words and support those in the greatest need.

Disabled people are desperate for more targeted support during this crisis as they struggle to pay for food, transport and essential costs relating to disability. They need clarity, and they need vital support to help them through the cost of living crisis.

Gemma Hope

Director of policy at Leonard Cheshire

I heartily agree with Wednesday’s leader writer that democracy requires that we have a general election very soon. But I would add that the “handsome mandate” acquired by Boris Johnson in 2019 came courtesy of our undemocratic first past the post system, which gave him 56 per cent of the parliamentary seats with less than 44 per cent of the vote. Yes, we need an election, but we also need a reformed voting system.

Susan Alexander

South Gloucestershire

Truss says she went too fast. The problem is not speed, but heading in the wrong direction.

We have realised we have got on the wrong train so we are running as fast as we can along the corridor of the carriage – as if that will help. She has not changed direction at all.

The aim is still to make the rich richer and create a greater gulf between rich and poor. Save us from this madness.

Robert Murray

Nottingham

For all those holding sweepstakes on the future of Liz Truss, I suspect that she now has but one ambition left, which is to remain in office until at least 3 January 2023.

In that way, she will have completed 120 days in No 10 and not replace George Canning in the history books as the prime minister with the shortest period in office.

Colin Burke

Cumbria

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It’s deja vu all over again! As Truss started out as continuity Johnson, it seems she will finish the same way he did.

The toadies are there, declaring that she has apologised, and the country needs to move on, this is what the great British public want. Truss has declared she will lead the Tories at the next election.

This is all word for word what we got from Johnson. And then he was defenestrated. I “Truss” we won’t have to wait so long for the next toppling.

Marilyn Timney

Liss, Hampshire