Where the Conservatives should look for inspiration | Letters

The German version of conservatism provides a model, says John Veit-Wilson; while Derrick Joad suggests Michael Oakeshott should be essential readingKate Maltby’s analysis of the Conservative party’s disarray (My party has gambled away its reputation, 17 July) fails to see that its neoliberals are the equivalent of what the Trotskyists were in the Labour party of the past. Neoliberals are an entryist group standing for a body of economists’ ideas that can’t be implem