The fundamental changes the country needs must not be sacrificed to appease the right of the party, says Dr Peter Mangan. Plus letters from Alan Gent, John Hackett, Henrietta Cubitt and Brian Ronson
Nesrine Malik’s timely warning about the probability of Labour gaining power without confronting the impulses of the right that run through the party must be a concern shared by many (Labour must be bold and strike the killer blow – or the Tories will rise again, 9 October). The last thing to offer voters is “continuity Labour”, where fundamental change, so clearly necessary after years of Tory desolation, becomes muffled beneath the clamour of appeasing the right.
Putting compassion at the heart of the immigration and asylum system, controlling rents while building houses, protecting public services from further plundering by private finance, and taxing fairly all play to what Labour is meant to stand for. More significantly, many of these values have been shown to increasingly chime with what the public want.
