• IT is hard to fault Steven Taylor’s itemised account of Sir Keir Starmer’s Tory-like subversion of the Labour Party, (I despair with the leadership of Sir Keir Starmer, September 1).

On the other hand you have to question Jenny Woolf’s reasons for repeatedly demanding to know Mr Taylor’s voting intention at the next election, (The question remains, do you want Labour to win the next general election? September 8).

Firstly this has the whiff of a trap designed to get Mr Taylor thrown out of Sir Keir’s now McCarthyite Labour Party.

Secondly, while someone might voluntarily answer a pollster, voting privacy has always been respected as sacrosanct and a matter between the voter and the ballot-box.

Perhaps Ms Woolf strategically chooses to forget this but certainly the letters editor should keep this in mind when selecting future correspondence for publication.

DR GAVIN LEWIS
Longford Road, Manchester