I am on the brink of quitting Labour – the party has lost its values

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Labour leader Keir Starmer during the party’s conference in Brighton (Getty)

So it seems that the Labour conference was intended to administer the last rites to the Corbyn phenomenon. Yet I am aware of many middle-class people in my local (heavily-Tory, rural county) who joined the Labour Party precisely because of Jeremy Corbyn, after he became leader.

Why did we feel motivated by the man? In my case, it was because he stood for values that I hadn’t seen reflected in Westminster for many, many years.

Those values, it seemed to me, spoke of a kinder, fairer society. Would I have minded paying more tax, nationally and locally? No.