What a leftwing leader needs to do to earn credibility | Letters
Readers respond to an article by Owen Jones in which he says the left needs a figurehead who can bring back alienated voters and avoid culture wars
Owen Jones makes the case that a credible leftwing leader needs to win over alienated voters and dodge culture wars (The left needs to halt the UK’s slide into Farageism. This is the kind of leader who could do it, 3 April ). That starts by rejecting the terms left and right – where people sat in revolutionary France’s national assembly does not accurately define today’s politics.
The leadership team of any new political movement must convince voters of two things. One: “I trust these people to run the country.” Two: “They have got my back.”