• LETTER contributor Simon Pearson (A closer look at ‘shame and failure’ of Labour leaders, April 6) and Jeremy Corbyn (Labour should be defending democracy, not debasing it, April 6) equate popular vote with a desirable leader who will be good for the electorate.

But they know better. Germany: 1933 was a landslide for Adolf Hitler’s party; 2016 was a dubious majority victory for Donald Trump; and in 2018 Jair Bolsonaro took the majority vote.

The tyranny of the majority is one of democracy’s weakest attributes. But in Mr Pearson’s letter and Mr Corbyn’s forum, and the letter of Norman Thomas, the elephant in the room is the reason for the Labour Party’s decision not to allow Mr Corbyn to stand as a Labour candidate.

That “elephant” is a 130-page report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, following a long, impartial, thorough and transparent investigation. It found that the Labour Party could have tackled anti-Semitism more effectively “if the leadership had chosen to do so”.

Sir Keir Starmer was handicapped in his campaign against the Tory party by the need for him to first clean up the party’s reputation. It is finally bearing fruit.

Why does an ethnic and/or religious group that accounts for a tiny 0.43 per cent of our population matter? Because democracy is not always about the majority. And that is one of democracy’s strongest attributes.

For anyone who knows about Farm Hall, in 1945 the top German nuclear scientists speculated on why the Americans beat them to the atomic bomb.

One reason given was Hitler’s strategy of pitting the scientists against one another. The other was the loss of all the Jewish scientists. Those who did not flee the country, were bullied, humiliated then expelled and/or exterminated.

JOYCE GLASSER, NW3