THE Labour Party is now engaged in much soul searching for a new leader since the recent disastrous loss at the general election, which was our third worst defeat since 1918. How best to respond to this fearful crisis?
We should not be ashamed of our recent past.
What we must remember from our 13 years in power is that we achieved a lot in government that we in the Labour Party should be rightly proud of: the minimum wage, tripling of funding to the NHS and the doubling of investment in education, banning smoking in public places, rights for the disabled and the greatest wealth redistribution of any period of a Labour government.
The Labour party is now facing an existential crisis and is in danger of being a political irrelevance in national politics for some time to come, if it does not choose its new leader wisely.
Cllr John
Stockton, Runcorn
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