Lib Dems will stand on their own merits | Letters

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron campaigning in St Albans. ‘Only by electing more Liberal Democrat MPs can we gain the influence needed to stop a hard Brexit,’ write Tom Brake MP and others.As for the current Labour party under Corbyn, it has little chance of immediate major success.Its members need to wake up to the fact that giving Corbyn their enthusiastic support in leadership contests is quite different from the business of pulling in votes during parliamentary elections.