• The deadline for the next general election is January 2025, not January 2026, as an article said (With Tories stealing some of Labour’s best clothes, Starmer needs a change of gear, 2 April, p41).
• Peter Law, who won the Blaenau Gwent seat in the 2005 general election, was not a “deselected MP”; rather, he was a member of the Welsh Assembly who resigned from the Labour party in order to stand as an independent in that parliamentary election (History does not favour the outsider candidate, 2 April, p33).
• A brief business item said that Royal Mail staff had “announced a fresh wave of strikes after Easter”; this was not the case, although there had been indications of potential new strikes (“Postal workers strike again after Easter”, 2 April, p49).
