• TULIP Siddiq’s campaign at this election was a joy to behold. So often election campaigns are sanitised affairs, compromises of stage-managed hustings and horribly contrived leaflets stuffed through our doors.

This time young volunteers, desperate to get their message out, engulfed our area. Walking around on polling day I spotted at least six groups of Labour campaigners. Their enthusiasm was infectious. I have no doubt that these volunteers secured many previously “undecideds” to vote in Tulip’s favour.

The big story at this election, beyond Theresa May’s failed gamble, is the turnout of young people. It is high time that their voices were represented in parliament with the same degree of commitment that elderly generations have benefited from.

An MP such as Tulip will be the perfect ambassador for this new community of voters. As a young mother herself it is hard to think of someone so well equipped to take their issues to the corridors of power. Tulip Siddiq’s promise and energy should fill local young people with the same degree of excitement that they felt on polling day.

ELI MACHOVER, NW3