I laughed when I read Madame Tussaud's, having melted down William Hague, has no plans to make a waxwork of the new Conservative leader: "Mr Duncan Smith is hardly in the news, nobody ever talks about him and the people who do know who he is do not seem to care about him either way."

Proof, if any were needed, that Tory fortunes are waning rather than waxing?

-C Fisher, Bute Street, Brighton