• ANDREW Feinstein’s campaign to unseat Sir Keir Starmer was indeed incredible, (Many constituents feel voiceless, July 11).

We doubt that the “huge cohort” of volunteers were all local.

Camden Council has been one of the most successful in the country at continuing to respond to the increasing needs of the population with ever dwindling resources and staff caused by the austerity driven by the Conservative government.

Feinstein, rather than trying to help oust the incumbents and support the first real chance of a Labour government in years, set his sights on toppling Starmer and trampling on the hopes of the many who so fiercely wanted and needed change.

The politicians of the Tory government, as Feinstein says, were “untouchable and unaccountable” and the best bet local residents in Holborn and St Pancras had at having a change in style, ethos and responsiveness of government was to vote for the change that Starmer’s premiership will bring.

Feinstein talks about holding politicians to account. Yet he was the candidate supported by OCISA a political organisation set up in Wales to unseat Starmer. OCISA is not a political party but a company, the same structure as Nigel Farage’s Reform.

The OCISA website explains that it has a digital constituency, the supporters that Feinstein relied on were not interested in the rights and needs of Camden residents, they were drawn from all over the country with the express and singular intent to unseat our MP.

Voters in Holborn & St Pancras were harassed in the streets and outside polling stations by Feinstein supporters.

The proclaimed principles of peace, equality and democracy felt very different on the street.

Extremists on the left – and on the right – are motivated by hate, not by hope; they want to destroy, not to build, and they use the same vehicles to do that.

The notion that Feinstein / OCISA campaign was behind the appointment of Richard Hermer KC as the new attorney general is risible. Starmer and Hermer have been colleagues since 1993, Hermer is one of the most eminent and intelligent lawyers of their generation.

Having witnessed years of underqualified, incompetent, individuals and cronies being helicoptered into jobs by the Tories, it is not surprising that the new PM is filling jobs requiring expertise with, dare we say it, experts.

A novel idea perhaps, but that’s what good governance looks like. There is now hope for our country.

The Labour government will shorten National Health Service waiting lists, improve schools and hire more teachers, build more houses, improve street safety, boost workers’ rights and build green energy.

The Labour Manifesto calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

We should support Starmer’s government, for which this constituency voted. As England supporters know, it is the winning that counts not coming in second.

GEORGIA KAUFMANN Chair
GILES WRIGHT Secretary
Holborn & St Pancras Constituency Labour Party