The risks and rewards of Keir Starmer's long game | Letters

Alastair Tinto and Bernie Evans are frustrated with the Labour leader’s hesitancy and reluctance to leave the centre ground, while Toby Wood welcomes Starmer’s cautious approach to policymaking. Plus letters from Eddie Dougall and Alison McIntosh Well said, Tom Kibasi (Keir Starmer’s leadership needs an urgent course correction, 16 February). As vice-chair of South East Cornwall constituency Labour party (CLP) for five years, I can testify to the demoralising effect that Keir Starmer’s attack on Jeremy Corbyn has had on local activists. I voted for Corbyn twice. I was never a member of Momentum and I recognise that Corbynism failed as an electoral project.I didn’t vote for Starmer but I was happy to see him elected leader. I thought he was the best-placed candidate to heal the divisions within the party. How wrong I was. Like many of my colleagues on the CLP, I now have very little enthusiasm for the party, I am no longer active in the CLP and I am concentrating on politics at a local level as a parish councillor. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/19/the-risks-and-rewards-of-keir-starmers-long-game #keir_starmer #labour #politics #jeremy_corbyn #conservatives #boris_johnson #uk_news