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Tim Farron was half right in claiming that Theresa May “put her party before her country” (From hubris to humiliation, 10 June), but many Tories will feel thet she put herself before her party, with disastrous consequences.Jeremy BeechamLabour, House of LordsTim Farron was half right in claiming that Theresa May “put her party before her country” (From hubris to humiliation, 10 June), but many Tories will feel thet she put herself before her party, with disastrous consequences.Jeremy BeechamLabour, House of Lords
• Nicely appropriate that, as well as democracy, the Greeks gave us the words hubris and chaos.Chris BakerMinety, Wiltshire• Nicely appropriate that, as well as democracy, the Greeks gave us the words hubris and chaos.Chris BakerMinety, Wiltshire
• One good thing to emerge from the debacle is that next time someone asks Mrs May what the naughtiest thing she has ever done was, she can say that she once screwed the whole of the Tory party and most of the country in a single day.Dr Philip LongWivenhoe, Essex• One good thing to emerge from the debacle is that next time someone asks Mrs May what the naughtiest thing she has ever done was, she can say that she once screwed the whole of the Tory party and most of the country in a single day.Dr Philip LongWivenhoe, Essex
• Can we stop talking about vicars’ daughters now, please? There are a great many of us, and we are all different.Judith MackCorby, Northamptonshire• Can we stop talking about vicars’ daughters now, please? There are a great many of us, and we are all different.Judith MackCorby, Northamptonshire
• Can it be that orange is the new blue (DUP: Party props up Tories ‘to bring stability’, 10 June)?Vee SingletonFramlingham, Suffolk• Can it be that orange is the new blue (DUP: Party props up Tories ‘to bring stability’, 10 June)?Vee SingletonFramlingham, Suffolk
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