DAVID Cameron called a referendum to try to shut up his Tory backbenchers. He has been badly defeated by his own party. It has become clear that none of them have a plan of what they want to happen now that they have won the vote to leave the EU.

The story in the media should be the chaos in the Conservative Party. The Labour Party should be united in opposition to the government party and holding them to account.

Instead the Parliamentary Labour Party has chosen this moment to attack its own leader. After Jeremy Corbyn was elected by an overwhelming majority of Labour Party members to be our leader, a number of old style Blairite Labour MPs have plotted to go against the members and defeat him and his policies. They have managed to persuade more and more MPs that he cannot lead the party, that he is weak.

On the contrary, he has worked massively hard, speaking all over the country to overflowing meetings on the policies he believes in — including the Remain campaign. All the by-elections under his leadership have been won with a bigger share of the vote. Two thirds of Labour voters voted for Remain.

The country is not the Westminster bubble but is the people who live here. The Labour Party is not the MPs but is the membership, which has doubled since he became leader and is still growing. The electorate has shown it has little trust in the same old politics. Jeremy Corbyn is a breath of fresh air, who is authentic and not self-serving. At the time of the expenses scandal he was the MP with the smallest claim.

At a meeting called at short notice for half a dozen supporters in the Bolton Labour Party to discuss the crisis, 40 people turned up to support Corbyn and to express their anger at the MPs who are letting the party down and the councillors who have jumped on this dangerous bandwagon. Shame on them!

Cath Ryde

Chorley New Road

Bolton