• I CAME home to find Camden, the council’s magazine, on my doormat.

Flipping through the summer edition I thought: what great events for people in our borough!

From the sports and swimming for children, to the wellbeing walks for the elderly.

From gardening classes to help with school meals. All from a council that has had to cope with 60 per cent cuts in funding from the Tories!

Then I read the CNJ letters pages and came across David Reed’s letter (Labour has to develop policies to deal with the Tory disasters, July 6), an all-out attack on Labour and everything it stands for. He sneers at the achievements of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

Honestly: what planet does he live on?

You only have to look at the National Health Service, whose 75th birthday we are celebrating.

Waiting lists under Labour fell and patient satisfaction rose. As Polly Toynbee rightly observed this week: “Labour has a history of leaving the NHS better, and the Tories of damaging it.”

Wait.

Here are some Labour achievements during the Blair and Brown years.

— Introducing the national minimum wage and establishing the Low Pay Commission.

— The Human Rights Act.

— More than doubling the number of apprenticeships.

— Introducing civil partnerships.

— Doubling the overseas aid budget.

— Sure Start.

— The Good Friday agreement.

— Tax credits.

— Equality Act.

— Equality and Human Rights Commission.

— Winter fuel allowance.

— Climate Change Act.

— Maternity leave.

— Increased university places.

— Food Standards Agency.

— Beating the Kyoto target on greenhouse gases.

— Free bus passes for over-60s.

— Devolution.

— Free breast cancer screening.

— 10 years of continual economic growth.

— Writing off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.

If that’s what we can look forward to under Sir Keir Starmer, I say “bring it on!”

MARTIN PLAUT, NW5