• LAST week you featured an article by a politically “activist” academic telling your readers how “the Tory press undermines democracy” (Forum, May 25). Sir, maybe you should examine the beam in your own eye before considering the mote in your brother’s?

Your editorial coverage of the election lists all the candidates in the two Camden constituencies – for which many thanks – but coverage is entirely concentrated on the two Labour candidates and the Tory in Hampstead and Kilburn.

I have never voted Conservative in my life, and will not do so next month, but I reckon all unbiased observers would agree the emphasis in your stories on the Tory candidate was in her Labour opponent’s favour.

I nearly forgot! You did feature Lib-Dem Cllr Flick Rea in your Gulliver page, and carried a letter by former Cllr Paul Braithwaite.

I’ve never been a Labour supporter, though I have voted that way a few times in local elections – but I am distressed by the sad demise of a party which in the last century was a major architect of Britain’s political and social development.

How naïve and stupid are Tulip Siddiq, who nominated Corbyn for party leader, and Glenda Jackson, who says she would have done the same, while recognising how hopeless he is?

Anyone who has ever watched the Parliament Channel over the last two years will accept that the only consistent real opposition to the Tories in the Commons has come from the SNP and the Lib-Dems.

Labour is in the worst position since 1935, when Ernest Bevin destroyed George Lansbury’s leadership. Lansbury was a committed pacifist, but Corbyn doesn’t even seem to have the guts to spell out where he stands. Sadly, Labour today lacks a Bevin prepared to dispatch Corbyn to Dignitas in Switzerland.

JOHN LEFLEY
Carole House, NW1