Starmer right to sack Long-Bailey

■ LABOUR was decimated at the last election, losing to a corrupt party led by a chancer. But along came hope in Keir Starmer, a leader capable of taking on the Tories and exposing Boris Johnson as the wrong man in the wrong job.

Then the party resorts to doing what it does best, ripping itself apart. Rebecca Long-Bailey should have stayed clear of declaring her support for comments which were rightly construed as anti-Semitic.

Surely, she’s intelligent enough to realise the problems it would cause? Starmer has Johnson frightened to death at PMQs and has shown he could run the country.

The Labour left need to decide if they want to belong to a party capable of governing or forever remain in opposition.

Stan Greenhalgh, Wigan

■ Keir Starmer was right to sack Shadow Education Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey. Labour needs to unite around its new leader and get on with holding this corrupt Government to account. Johnson has proved a walking disaster over his handling of this crisis and yet Labour’s internal struggles continue. When will they get the message? Starmer should abolish Momentum forthwith and if the Long-Baileys of this world don’t like it, tough. Their style of politics led to Labour getting hammered at the polls in December.

The party needs to get on with winning the next election.

■ Keir Starmer was right to sack Rebecca Long-Bailey from the Shadow Cabinet for sharing an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

Starmer has done more to tackle the scourge of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party in four months since becoming leader than Jeremy Corbyn did in his four years of leadership.

If Len McCluskey, John Lansman and other left wing figures don’t like his handling of the matter and his plans for the future, they should either put up or quit and form their own socialist movement.

Steve Goulding, Sheffield

■ It appears Keir Starmer is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.

Had he ignored Rebecca LongBailey’s sharing of Maxine Peake’s comments then he would be condemned for allowing the old Jeremy Corbyn practices to continue. Since he has taken action against her, he’s been wrongly condemned for igniting old conflicts within the party.

■ At last we have a leader who isn’t frightened to assert his authority over the party’s left-wing MPs.

The policies of Momentum got us nowhere and their ideas have had their day.

The majority of Labour supporters back Keir Starmer – it’s time for all true Labour MPs to show they won’t stand for the methods of Momentum or the bullying of the union bosses. Joyce Jackson, Staffs

■ This anti-Semitism incident showed a lack of political judgement on Rebecca LongBailey’s part.

It is a toxic subject and should rightfully be treated as such.

She should never have retweeted Maxine Peake’s comments and her refusal to undo what she had done left Keir Starmer with no choice but to sack her.

Rob Halpin, Northfleet, Kent

■ As a lawyer, Rebecca Long-Bailey surely should have known better than to share Maxine Peake’s comment – which Maxine herself later admitted was inaccurate.

Refusing to remove the retweet rightly cost Long-Bailey her position.

Seren Roberts, Cardiff