AFTER seven years I have rejoined the Labour Party.

Labour is totally opposed to the cruel cuts in our conventional defence, to the ruinous reduction in provincial disposable incomes by the abolition of national pay agreements, the further deregulation of Sunday trading and to the devastation of rural communities by the allowing of foreign companies to buy our postal service and our roads.

Every Labour MP voted to demand a real-terms reduction in the British contribution to the EU budget. The number of Conservatives who voted with Labour was lower than the number of Liberal Democrats in the Commons.

David Cameron has wholly failed to deliver that reduction.

Labour is the force for the Union against separatism on at least three fronts. The relative success of Labour at the local elections in the South in 2012 and 2013, capturing first Chipping Norton and then Witney Central, in Oxfordshire, indicates that the coalition’s vindictiveness is bringing the South-East back into the United Kingdom.

Only Labour supports England’s NHS. I am proud to be a member of that party once again.

David Lindsay, Lanchester.