Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

• GARETH Murphy is clearly suffering from the collective amnesia, or fugue state, that afflicts all Corbyn-fellow travellers, (Sir Keir has taken the Labour Party backwards, December 2).

Sir Keir Starmer may be imperfect, as all politicians inevitably prove to be, but he did not lead the Labour Party into its most crushing defeat for decades.

He did not inflict an 80-plus Tory majority on the country, which is possibly insurmountable when the next general election occurs.

He did not enable yet more years of Tory misrule under a prime minister clearly unfit to run the country, and particularly during a crisis such as the pandemic.

Mr Murphy asserts that “Under Corbyn, the Labour Party inspired millions and gave them hope for a better future”.

Clearly millions and millions of other electors were not similarly “inspired”, and resiled at the hideous, rampant anti-Semitism that flourished under Corbyn’s leadership, to name but one of the misdemeanours during his glorious reign.

Red Wall seats may well be lost to Labour in perpetuity, a direct result of the far / hard left having alienated once solid Labour voters.

That Mr Murphy and his fellow zealots are unable to acknowledge the catastrophic consequences of Corbyn’s leadership is both baffling and provocative.

Sir Keir may well lack charisma of the Corbyn kind (something which eludes me), but give me solidity and common sense any day over a sub-cult figure who led his party into the political wilderness.

JENNIFER SHERIDAN, W2