The likely imminent election of Keir Starmer - the architect of the disastrous double-facing position on Brexit - as the new Labour Party Leader, demonstrates that many of its members are in denial about the reason the Labour Party suffered an electoral meltdown in the recent general election.

This was an issue that was supposed to destroy the Tory Party, but in reality it led to Labour nearly, but not quite, being electorally destroyed as a viable party to form a government for the foreseeable future.

The reason that the party lost many of its solidly working class seats in the north and midlands is that they contemptuously ignored their views on Brexit and attempted to undermine the Referendum result to leave the EU in 2016.

Labour also failed to understand that the electorate knew that it was the Labour Party that it was keeping British workers in poverty through their ‘open door’ policy of allowing EU nationals to undermine UK labour markets by driving down wages.

All this has achieved is for electors to perceive that Labour is enabling greedy companies and shareholders to gorge in the trough of the corporate benefits system.

Keir Starmer and his middle class fellow travellers seem determined to hold their working class core support in contempt and following this same policy of promoting freedom of movement of people, will continue to alienate many voters and make Labour unelectable.

Ian Kirkham

The Queens Drive, Chorleywood