THERESA May's fear of televised face-to-face debates with Corbyn tells us everything we need to know about this purported successor to the hated Thatcher.

More Artful Dodger than Iron Lady.

Like the Tory Party as a whole, she has a lot to hide, and isn't comfortable with impromptu debates where she cannot rigorously control the questions, and the questioner.

Tory fixation with Brexit is designed to blind the electorate to seven years of "austerity" - swingeing cuts in public expenditure and welfare to pay off the trillions used to bail-out bankers in 2008 and the gruesome prospect of even worse cuts to come if they win the general election.

The Artful Dodger, like the bulk of the Tory Party, supported remaining within the EU.

Now they claim to be champions of British interests outside the EU!

Make no mistake if May succeeds in smuggling herself into power on June 8, the working class and poor of this country will face a hurricane of cuts, tax rises, price rises and impoverishment.

Anyone of the 95% of the population that struggles day-to-day for financial survival who is foolish enough to vote Tory is like a lemming rushing to their own destruction.

James Roberts, Wallasey.