• BEING a supporter but not a party member I had naively thought Labour’s main objective was to win the next election so that they could make Britain a fairer, more just and pleasanter country with vastly increased social housing stocks, humane social services, non-privatised NHS services and hospitals, and many other things we would all like to see.

However, I despair at the ongoing sniping, derogatory and aggressive remarks about the potential party leader Sir Keir Starmer.

If those on the left (more likely the extreme left and Momentum types) really want to see the party back in power they should stop washing their dirty linen in public, in particular such as the signatories of last week’s letter from the Holborn and St Pancras LP.

Their preferred leaders would not appeal to the voting majority in Britain precisely because their views are so extreme; but they refuse to accept this as reality. They should work in private to reach an agreement, or at least a pact, so that Sir Keir can concentrate on his campaign.

Frankly apart from the majority of support he has already garnered, he is the potential leader most likely to lead Labour to win an election, not into the wilderness as Jeremy Corbyn and his followers have done.

To the general public and middle-of-the-road party members they are creating an appalling impression of constant disagreements instead of working together for a common aim, to get back into power with sensible, moderate, policies which will appeal to the majority of middle England as well as those who would consider themselves working class or blue collar brigade.

If Sir Keir had been party leader at election time, the result would have been very different.

JOHN STRATTON
Thurlow Road, NW3