Megi Rychlikova’s gloomy view of Britain’s politics (New Zealand sets example, March 22) is understandable. But her sweeping condemnation of British MPs was in many cases undeserved, and in one case wholly unjust.
She criticised Jeremy Corbyn for having “flounced out of a crisis meeting of party leaders because it included someone he didn’t like”.
Mr Corbyn boycotted the meeting, not because it included someone he didn’t like, but because it included someone who shouldn’t have been there. By prior agreement it was, as Ms Rychlikova correctly states, “a meeting of party leaders”. And Chuka Umunna is not a party leader. He’s the spokesperson of The Independent Group of MPs (TIG), not its party leader. Who says so? Chuka Umunna.
Jeremy Corbyn didn’t walk out, let alone “flounce out” - a spiteful term unworthy of Ms Rychlikova. Apparently he never went in. He “was waiting in the corridor and refused to attend the meeting”. Who says so? Chuka Umunna.
John Heawood,
Eastward Avenue, York
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