Letters: Boris Johnson must reassure working-class voters distrustful of the Left

SIR – Sherelle Jacobs (Comment, November 7) is quite right to say that Boris Johnson and the Conservatives need to gain a better understanding of working-class voters.

Many are, or were, tribal Labour supporters, but that does not mean that they espouse the far-Left policies of today’s party.

I spent the bulk of my working life in a middle-class environment in mainstream civil service departments in London. I found increasingly that my colleagues, like many people in the public sector, had unquestioning Left-wing attitudes and were fervent supporters of the EU.

By contrast, when I later worked for several years on the shop floor of a large mail-processing centre, where most of my colleagues were…