TOM Wareing believes that the Labour Party owes its existence to "Methodism" and to "Conservative Christians" (You Say, June 26).
In that, he may well have an ally in Tony Blair who agrees with Councillor Wareing and Lloyd George that the formation of the Labour Party was a mistake, to which Blair attributes a split in anti-Tory forces for most of the 20th Century.
For the record, the Labour Party was formed on February 27, 1900 at a conference held in the Memorial Hall, Farrington Street, London. It was attended by 129 delegates from 65 trade unions and three socialist societies.
In a foreword to Francis Williams' history of the Labour Party Fifty Years March published in 1950, Clement Attlee described it as "the different strands in the Labour and Socialist movements woven together".
One of those strands was undoubtedly the Christian Socialist Movement which is a world away from Wareing's "Conservative Christians" whose modern equivalents occupy the White House.
PETER NIELSEN,
Worcester.
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