“Not a shred of work was done in the ward,” said a “Labour insider” of the shock council result in Hampstead Town, when a Labour councillor was returned for the first time in the ward’s history (How Boris Johnson’s Conservatives lost their grip on London). This came as a surprise to my 81-year-old mother and other local party members, who have been pounding the streets of Hampstead for months in the buildup to this election. In politics, as in so much of life, quiet hard work gets things done and yet all too easily goes unnoticed.
Kitty Stewart
London
• I wonder if the government’s disastrous handling of our economy, inflation, food banks, energy prices and Brexit is really a deliberate immigration policy, to make our country unattractive?
Martin Cooper
Bromley, Kent
