The pressing reform wanted within the Conservative management voting course of

As a Canadian member of the Conservative get together, I discover myself among the many 0.2% of the inhabitants who can vote on who the following prime minister might be (Truss v Sunak: how do Tory PM contenders differ on coverage?, 15 August). The explanation for that is supposedly that we have now a parliamentary system, not a presidential one.

My get together is at the moment dominated by a small, unrepresentative group of more and more cantankerous outdated southerners who need to abandon Conservative sound finance for la-la land economics, whereas the remainder of us pay them to fake that there isn’t any inflation.

What concerning the new Tory-curious voters within the north who gave us the seats we have to govern, however usually are not but nicely represented among the many Conservative get together membership?

A easy change would go a protracted technique to fixing this: give equal weight to the vote from every constituency. That’s what the Conservative get together of Canada did once they have been practically obliterated within the Nineteen Nineties. If we don’t do that now, we could also be compelled to – after an election defeat.
Joseph Molto
Mitcham, London