DESPERATE David Cameron has re-shuffled his cabinet in one final attempt to woo voters at next May’s general election (Echo, July 16).

I also hear he has been practising shuffling packs of cards in the hope he gets dealt as many spades as possible.

He’s going to need them to help dig his party out of the hole it currently finds itself in.

Mindful his ratings are so abysmal,the PM has ditched the old male warhorses and replaced them with a bunch of mainly unknown female faces.

He hopes a nice bit of window dressing will do the trick. All he needs now are the dummies.

Step forward the queens of the catwalk.

We’ve had the wolves, now it’s wolves in sheep’s clothing.

Different faces, same old policies I’m afraid.

We are told these down-to earth,approachable and familyfriendly females are Cameron’s secret weapon to win over the working class.

Are they having a laugh?

Nicky Morgan, who takes over Michael Gove’s job as Education Secretary, was privately educated at Oxford. And Claire Perry, the new rail minister, is a former banker.

As for Esther McVey, as Employment Minister she will be far from friendly.

This failed TV presenter turned Tory axewoman was responsible for the closure of Remploy factories for disabled workers and now helps Iain Duncan-Smith front his vicious welfare reforms.

Stephen Dixon, Redcar.

ON the face of it David Cameron was altering the appearance of his cabinet by promoting younger MPs and women.

This was a presentational change ahead of the 2015 General Election.

Presentation is not everything.

Mr Cameron needs to provide evidence of the success of his policies in working towards economic recovery but also warding off the influence of Ukip to promote a future outside the European Union.

The outcome of the General Election will be determined by whether a majority think his approach is the right one and how much certainty there is about our future in Europe. He must work to ensure that we feel more secure with him in charge than if a Labour Government is elected because the Tory work has not been finished.

The Labour Party has not covered itself in glory but if we think they play a steadier hand on Europe that could be the crux of the matter.

I am keen for clarity to guide what we do in terms of the European Court on Human Rights because it was set up after the war to ensure that there is no return to the conditions leading to fascism and prevent communism from its worse excesses.

Mr Cameron seems to me to play his hand too much with one eye on Ukip and I can’t see how anyone can be sure that he has a safe pair of hands.

G Bulmer, Billingham.