Residents in Calstock - which sits along a stunning stretch of the river Tamar in Cornwall - were promised 33 new homes on a patch of unused land with almost half classed as affordable.
Keir Starmer delivering his virtual speech on Britain’s economic future. Photograph: Reuters
Well said, Tom Kibasi (Keir Starmer’s leadership needs an urgent course correction, 16 February). As vice-chair of South East Cornwall constituency Labour party (CLP) for five years, I can testify to the demoralising effect that Keir Starmer’s attack on Jeremy Corbyn has had on local activists. I voted for Corbyn twice. I was never a member of Momentum and I recognise that Corbynism failed as an electoral project.
I didn’t vote for Starmer but I was happy to see him elected leader. I thought he was the best-placed candidate to heal the divisions within the party. How wrong I was. Like many of my colleagues on the CLP, I now have very little enthusiasm for the party, I am no longer active in the CLP and I am concentrating on politics at a local level as a parish councillor.