RECENTLY you published a very good letter from one of your regular correspondents regarding the power and influence that trade unions hold over Labour, which revealed the extent of the intimidation and bullying that the writer had experienced from a workplace union representative.

Having worked for one of the biggest unions in the country for many years this does not at all surprise me.

I am not anti-union. Employees must be protected from unscrupulous employers, however some unions now seem to think that they wield such power that they are untouchable.

I am the daughter of a railwayman and a dinner lady; good, honest salt-of-the earth types.

If they were alive today they would be heartbroken to think that the country they so loved and were proud of was at risk of being taken back to the dark days of the 1970s by Jeremy Corbyn.

Some reading this letter may presume I’m a right wing ‘Leaver’, when in fact my politics are in the centre and I was an ardent Remainer, but the decision to leave the EU was a democratic one by the electorate and we now have to pull together and make it work.

That is why we need someone who is strong, realistic and sensible to take us through what is obviously going to be a very difficult and worrying process.

Whatever your politics, Theresa May is the person to do this, not Jeremy Corbyn.

Ginny Dawson, Fishergate, York