Keir Starmer is putting Labour on a path to a voter boycott | Letters

Peter Cousins, Bernie Evans and Stephen Jenkins express their disquiet at the direction of the party and the Labour leader’s response to the Israel-Hamas warNesrine Malik is on to something in drawing attention to the sense of a “final reckoning” among departing Labour members (Labour losing voters over Gaza matters – whether it hurts electorally or not, 30 October). Though he may think otherwise, Keir Starmer’s underlying error is to concentrate on winning power, while forgetting the purpose of winning it in the first place. He can be forgiven for not revealing detailed policy until closer to an election, but, as Malik points out, the general direction of travel is towards an increasing poverty of ambition in Labour’s likely legislative agenda.Starmer and his advisers have jettisoned transformative idea after transformative idea. Making sure everything that crosses his desk is of a piece with his favoured tough/realistic/prime ministerial self-portrayal easily explains his comment abo