Questions to answer as the Tories flounder | Letters

As Jeremy Corbyn pointed out in his conference speech, we live in an era of rentier capitalism, not free markets.The previous drivers of “growth” – rising house prices, financial services and the extraction of profit by private cartels from public services – do not reflect a productive economy and market competition, but rather a system dominated by rent-seeking.If the Conservative party is to have a future it must admit that the “free markets” it embraced wer