That supposedly ‘suicidal’ 1983 Labour manifesto | Letter

Tim Barnes says it wasn’t Michael Foot’s policies that caused his election defeatHow sporting of Polly Toynbee to concede that Labour is electable with a left-leaning (others would say “traditional”) leader like Jeremy Corbyn (This is Corbyn’s moment: he’s rescued Britain from the chains of austerity, 13 June).What she has not apologised for is her repetition of Gerald Kaufman’s untruth that the 1983 Labour manifesto was the “longest suicide note i