Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer 

• AS members of Hampstead and Kilburn Constituency Labour Party we are writing to correct the false reports that have been circulating in the Evening Standard, the Jewish Chronicle, and on social media of a meeting held on November 26 of the GC – general committee – of our CLP, when we passed a motion calling for the whip to be restored to our former leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

We were present at the meeting and can vouch for the fact that far from being “chaotic”, as has been reported, it was an orderly, well-run, meeting.

Present was a regional officer who told us not to discuss the motion. After listening respectfully to the regional officer, members were kindly allowed by the chair to decide for themselves what to do and voted to discuss the issue.

Members then voted by a large majority for the whip to be restored to Jeremy Corbyn and that all those CLP officers and members elsewhere who had been suspended for passing similar motions should be reinstated.

This is democracy. Members should not be gagged.

Sir Keir Starmer and David Evans, the Labour Party general secretary, should restore the whip and get on with the real business of opposing the Tories and their gross incompetence and creating a better future for the many.

NINETEEN CLP MEMBER SIGNATORIES