SIR – A note of comfort to your correspondent, Colin Durkin, on the treatment meted out to Jeremy Corbyn from all sections of the political divide.

Forget the labels. When Blair and Mandelson come out of the woodwork to warn the electorate of the folly of voting for Mr Corbyn, you know, undoubtedly, that he is offering an alternative agenda for a fairer Britain than those Tweedle Dum an’ Dee politicians did in office – a true national socialist programme for change that offers welfare according to need, education, self-advancement, aspiration and security for all its citizens, without resorting to the “austerity measures” the Tories have served up three times daily. “New” Labour equalled “Old” Tories in sharper suits, as we found to our cost.

In Corbyn we may once again have the opportunity to rediscover how a socialist government with a mixed managed economy can pump life back into Britain as the Labour party was charged to do and succeeded in 1945.

A broad-based collegiate voted for him overwhelmingly in the leadership election (unheard of to most politicians) and he should be left to form a shadow government rather than allow the cuckoos in the Labour party nest and others beyond to undermine him at every step.

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