The challenge is to be there every day, supporting the most vulnerable and understanding their needs, writes Labour councillor Steve Munby. Plus letters from Anna Ford, Dr David Clark and Ben Entwistle
“What is it that the left is not hearing?” Julian Coman asks (Labour’s lost voters clamour for belonging – but will the party answer them?, 3 May). He refers to Labour’s “city and university town redoubts”, but fails to ask what differentiates them from the “red wall”.
Anyone familiar with northern cities will know Labour’s strongest base in them is in traditional working-class communities. The important question is, what makes them different?