Glenda reads Stevie

• I CAME across this recording (above) from an era when Glenda Jackson was a fairly recently recognised actor and reader and the LP sleeve details inform us about her early appearances and affinity with Stevie Smith, a female poet from Hull.

Ms Jackson held the Hampstead and Kilburn area seat with boundary changes from a win in 1992 when the Labour Party suffered a second defeat under CND left-winger Neil Kinnock.

Kinnock was defeated in 1987 when West Hampstead councillor and one-time Camden Council leader Phil Turner failed to take the seat for the Labour Party.

Ms Jackson became a noble critic of Tony Blair by fiercely opposing UK involve­ment in the Iraq Invasion in 2003. She passed her legacy on but despite a current excellent MP, Tulip Siddiq, the Labour Party has now to reform or die.

The united trade union leadership is so out of time and place. Voters are simply not on board.

London likes Labour policies as London is a pro-European Union city bristling with hard-working immigrants from all over the world. London is in a different economic status to much of the north of a confused and misled England.

GARY SMITH
Asmara Road, NW2