An opinion poll last week put Labour at 37%, Reform at 19% and the Tories on 18%. Yet everybody predicts a Labour landslide. This is absurd and shows just how undemocratic Britain has become. If the turnout is roughly the same as in 2019, then Labour will gain absolute control of government with the support of merely a quarter of the electorate. We need a better word for it, but this is surely minoritism. Both Labour and the Tories are being anti-democratic in opposing electoral reform.
Dr Guy Standing
Soas University of London
• “Does Labour’s manifesto deliver what the country needs?” asks the headline on your article (13 June). Yes. Get them elected, and then let them “rock the boat”, in the words of one of the replies from your panel of experts.
Mary Cawston
London
