Letters: Starmer’s altered attitude towards Corbyn a mystery

The Shadow Cabinet has urged Sir Keir Starmer to expel Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party.

They are afraid that Starmer’s past support for Corbyn will damage Labour’s election prospects.

It certainly is something of a mystery how Starmer’s attitude to Corbyn changed so radically after the 2019 election.

He had said Corbyn would make a great Prime Minister and also said at one point that ‘the attacks on Jeremy Corbyn were terrible… they vilified him, and they knew what they were doing and why they were doing it’.

Whatever was going on in Starmer’s mind, it is inconceivable that he believed that Corbyn was a racist anti-Semite, or enabler of antisemitism when he spoke those words.

Brendan O’Brien, London