Sonia Sodha presumes that Labour’s activists and members are two separate entities (“Starmer was right to exile Corbyn. Labour has a duty to voters, not rebellious members”, Comment). She ignores the fact that under Jeremy Corbyn thousands of previously non-active voters became both party members and activists, many, including myself, for the first time. Before Corbyn, I was neither a voter, nor a member, nor an activist.
Sodha writes about ejecting Corbyn as if it were a sign of democracy, yet what could be less democratic than denying the voters of Islington North their choice of Labour MP – the much respected and hard-working Corbyn, who has served that constituency very well for decades?
