Letters to the Editor: UK Conservative Party leadership contest diverts from real issues

A tsunami of strategic issues facing the UK, from trade deals to privatisation of the National Health Service, are being swept under the carpet 

UK Conservative party leadership candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak ahead of a recent TV debate.

As Emma DeSouza cited in her recent article on the sad passing of David Trimble: “The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind.” — Northern Ireland needs today's politicians to live up to Trimble's example (Irish Examiner, online, July 26).

Like many other moderate Conservative voters in Britain, I am suffering from election fatigue because of the continuing blue-on-blue action in UK leadership debates.