• KEN Jones asks for Labour to “do something just a little bit socialist”, (Letters, December 19).

I hate to have to draw this to his attention, but the list is so long it is difficult to know where to begin.

Here are a few examples of what Labour has done in the past few months:

• launched Great British Energy, publicly owned and funded, to bring down fuel bills and cut our carbon output;

• given three million people a pay rise by increasing the minimum wage;

• started bringing our railways back under public control;

• introduced landmark legislation to crack down on rogue water bosses who pollute our rivers;

• started rolling out funded breakfast clubs so that children get a meal before they have to start learning;

• introduced vital reforms at work, giving rights to workers as soon as they join;

• begun a programme of house building to deliver 1.5 million homes.

This is what Labour has done already – an enormously ambitious programme.

And that is before we mention things like scrapping the ludicrous farce of the Rwanda deportation scheme and reform of the House of Lords.

But I am particularly proud that Rachel Reeves has begun to mend the gaping hole our public finances: Tory unfunded promises.

It had to be done and getting back stability will, in time, bring growth.

“The language of priorities is the religion of Socialism”, as Aneurin Bevan observed in 1949.

How right he was!

MARTIN PLAUT, NW5