• THE carefully selected excerpts of private correspondence between myself and other members of Camden Labour Group published in the CNJ last week (‘Stage-managed’ council meetings: Labour backbenchers ask party to stop planting questions’, September 6) reminded me of what US President Thomas Jefferson once wrote: “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

CLLR LAZZARO PIETRAGNOLI
Chief Whip
Camden Labour Group