I don’t have faith in her, but it’s sexist to call Liz Truss ‘dim’

I agree with Jess Phillips that it is a mistake to call Liz Truss “dim”. Patently ideological, gung-ho with her diplomatic gaffes and everything in between, but this slur can be perceived as sexist.

But like Phillips I have no great faith in her ability to dig this country out of the biggest economic hole it presently finds itself in and so far, I don’t see that she is willing or even able to see outside the limited remit of her tax-cutting strategies and rather vacuous “unleashing” modus operandi, to even want to try.

Yes, the hustings have been master classes of talking mainly to the converted and for the interested outsider, a mind-numbing and boring exercise bar none.

But soon if all the pundits are correct, she will be centre stage talking to a weary, anxiety-ridden public who can see nothing good ahead of them except massive bills to pay. She will need to switch from her seemingly black-and-white mindset and tune into an empathy and understanding of what people are up against. If she doesn’t then we are in for real trouble, because I don’t see the likely members of her cabinet having the courage or even desire to call her out, so here we go again, a torturous political merry-go-round with no chance to get off.

Judith A Daniels

Norfolk

I wholeheartedly concur with The Independent that the UN’s report on China’s sweeping purges and mass atrocities of Uyghurs is bleak. Over 1 million Uyghurs have been detained in one of the largest internment camps since the Holocaust to re-engineer their religious and cultural identities.

Alas, China’s unbridled lack of accountability remains unchecked on the world theatre especially now when our world is gripped by wars, conflicts, transnational infectious diseases, organised crimes, economic stagation, social upheaval, human trafficking and the possibility of a nuclear confrontation between the West and Russia.

When will we launch concrete steps to alleviate human misery?

Dr Munjed Farid Al Qutob

London

What’s the betting that Boris Johnson and his replacement travel to Scotland in separate planes to meet the Queen?

Viv Pert

London

Boris Johnson is quite right when he says that Vladimir Putin is "intent on undoing the good of Mikhail Gorbachev" and is wrecking his legacy.

It is quite tragic when a new leader comes along and needlessly wrecks all the achievements of their predecessors – putting at risk hard-won peace, stability and prosperity in the vain hope of reinstating some rose-tinted memory of the glory of empire. That his country is now trashing its international reputation in an ill-conceived, pseudo-patriotic action is atrocious to witness. It will take some time to restore.

Let us hope that he is shortly replaced by somebody with sufficient acumen and vision to attempt to undo this damage and start to put things right.

Julian Self

Milton Keynes

Having had weeks of what amounts to free Tory party political broadcasts, will the opposition parties, in the interests of fairness and balance, be granted a commensurate amount of airtime?

G Forward

Stirling