SIR – Following the House of Commons vote amounting to a rejection of British military action against Syria, I suppose we should be grateful to the trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party for supporting Ed Miliband in preference to his brother David for the leadership of the party.
Had David Miliband been elected Labour leader, which Joy Squires [Labour parliamentary candidate for Worcester] and the Worcester Labour Party wanted, he would undoubtedly have wanted to support David Cameron’s attempt to draw Britain into another Middle Eastern war on the coat tails of the Americans.
His strong support for the Iraq war, also supported by Mrs Squires and Worcester Labour Party as well as Worcester’s Labour MP at the time Michael Foster, leaves me in no doubt that in this particular instance, the influence and judgement of the trade unions in rejecting David Miliband in favour of his brother worked for the good.
The issue of chemical weapons will not be resolved without an international re-affirmation of the 100-year-old ban on them.
The UN must keep the matter urgently and firmly in play until that is done and the perpetrators of chemical attacks are brought before the international court in the Hague.
PETER NIELSEN
Worcester
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