Keir Starmer’s word salad of banal platitudes – “we will deliver the change that people are desperate for” (which change?) – exemplifies his inability to capture the imagination (These election results don’t mean tacking left or right…, 8 May). If he stays on as PM, it is extremely likely that Nigel Farage will succeed him. While I’m uninspired by any potential Labour successor, it is possible one of them might step up into the role and succeed. Starmer must resign to give us that chance for the future.
Dr Kimon Roussopoulos
Cambridge
• If Keir Starmer is seeking to reassure voters that he is really the man to deliver change, it seems bizarre to bring in Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman (9 May). It smacks of desperation. The message is that he doesn’t have the political answers and neither does his cabinet. But that has always been the problem. Starmer’s political antennae are virtually nonexistent. Sadly, Labour made the worst possible choice when it chose him as leader and there is no getting away from that.
Shirley Osborn
Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire
• Keir Starmer says he will not tack right or left. That sums him up: absolutely tackless. But then he appointed Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman and I realised I’d got it wrong. He does tack: backwards.
Jol Miskin
Sheffield
• If it’s any consolation to the PM, not all of us who abandoned Labour did so because of him. He’s done a reasonable job under difficult circumstances, but my Labour council is crap, so I voted Tory.
Callum Campbell
Willesden, London
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