• THANKS for the post-election New Journal, great coverage of what was by anyone’s standards a stunningly surprising result for Labour and, as Boris Johnson suggests, for the Tories too; although, as usual, I think he is using the word in a different way (Keir and Tulip stun Tories, Special Edition, June 9).

And thank goodness the younger voters have woken up at last – but they are a decade or so too late. They could have stopped the Tories years ago as they imposed fees on their education, made jobs low-paid and insecure, while letting the housing market soar out of control so that young people had no hope of a decent future.

Their previous reluctance to vote was stupid: they are the ones most directly impacted by political decisions, they will live with them their whole lives. And, as we have just seen, their votes can change things.

Theresa May should be gone by the time you go to print. She gambled with our brains and lost because the Tories offered nothing except nasty personal attacks, while Jeremy Corbyn offered real hope.

In football “playing the man” is what people do when they are not good enough to win by fair means and skill, and the people saw through your nastiness and incompetence.

By bringing back Michael Gove and keeping Boris Johnson on as our bumbling foreign secretary, May has confirmed that she has not really accepted what has happened. So here’s a simple message for her: Go, go now!

Whatever dirty deal you do with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party will only increase your government’s instability. So now let us hope our MPs, including the majority of sensible and decent Tories, “take back control” as the now-defunct Ukippers demanded.

The House of Commons should re-examine the whole situation, beginning with a decision to put Brexit on hold until they have developed a possible strategy, or decided it just is not worth all the time, money, and effort involved in renegotiating our relations with the whole of the outside world. But do they have that much courage and common sense?

Jeremy Corbyn does, so will the rest of his party support him now he has shown Labour can win with a real strategy for make people’s lives better, not some Tory-lite policies which will only make things worse? I fervently hope so.

DAVID REED
Eton Avenue, NW3