As crumbling schools and insecure prisons help to hammer the final nails into this government’s coffin, the focus inevitably turns to what happens next. A vigorous debate is now being played out between those who argue that anything is better than the corruption and neglect of this Conservative government and those who believe that those who have prospered under 13 years of Tory rule should start to contribute a greater proportion of their wealth for the wider good.
Larry Elliott is right (Councils going bust, schools crumbling, the NHS in crisis: the answer is more tax, 7 September). Just a change of personnel in government alone will not bring about the radical changes people are desperate for. The fundamental question remains of whether Labour, under Keir Starmer’s leadership, has the vision and courage to introduce a fairer distribution of wealth to fund heavy investment in our public services and start to redress the years of Conservative slash and burn policies, or whether it maintains its current trajectory and achieves power but simply treads water.
Peter Riddle
Wirksworth, Derbyshire
