MR Osborne has said that he will continue to stand for us, or with us, or by us. But do we all really want him to do so?

Two General Elections ago I stood against him as The True English (Poetry) Party, with the particular purpose of taking to him my disgust at his – and most of his party’s – collusion with Mr Blair – and most of his party – in the appalling and disgraceful war in Iraq.

I had the opportunity to put to Mr Osborne a verse on the matter.

I don’t know what Mr Osborne made of the piece; but the Chilcot Report gives it fresh impetus.

At the next General Election I may well stand again.

I will question his fitness to stand for us when, as a Remain voice in the Referendum process, he told us categorically that, were Britain to leave the EU, it would have a dire and presumably long-term detrimental effect on our economy; but he now recants on that and says that the economy is robust and well able to thrive.

Michael George Gibson Knutsford