What to make of the Lib Dems’ record? | Letters

Readers share their views on the Liberal Democrats in the week that Jo Swinson was elected as their new leader

Jo Swinson asserts that Jeremy Corbyn can't be trusted on Brexit (Report, 24 July). Maybe it's worth asking whether she can be trusted on many of the things that contributed to the referendum outcome she wants to overturn. She voted for scrapping the education maintenance allowance and for increasing tuition fees; for reducing housing benefits; against letting benefits rise in line with inflation; against increasing taxes for those earning over 150,000; against taxes on bankers' bonuses; for reducing corporation tax; against restricting NHS provision to private patients.

Simply resetting the Brexit clock won't address the disquiet that produced the leave victory. We need a government committed to, among other things, an economic model that distributes national wealth more appropriately - around the country, and across all sections of society. Corbyn has a long-standing commitment to tackling economic and social inequality and Jo Swinson condemns herself by turning her back on him.
Jane Mardell
Woodbridge, Suffolk

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