Beer pipeline cuts through the gloom | Brief letters

Leadsom quits Tory leadership race | Rail commuter anger | ‘Haves and have-nots’ | At home in Croydon | Bruges beer pipelineHow do the Tories do it (Theresa May set to be PM after Leadsom quits leadership race, theguardian.com, 11 July)? Bloody mayhem is established and within a matter of days there is a wholesale closing of ranks before the stupid Labour party can take advantage of the fiasco (did they even notice?). And now we have a summer of Tory consolidation (probably back towa