A RECENT correspondent to your pages made the lofty claim that Jeremy Corbyn is Labour’s greatest ever leader (HAS, June 15).

Does Jeremy Corbyn justify such praise? Corbyn’s career in summary is one of a relatively isolated figure on the margins; a divisive politician.

Having achieved his position through the support of left wing activists, he split his parliamentary party before going on to fight an effective election campaign which has enthused the Labour core voters particularly the youth vote.

Nevertheless he lost the election.

He has never performed any government role. He is an effective protest leader.

Does that make him better than Keir Hardie, Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson or dare I say it three times Prime Minister Tony Blair?

The answer is clearly not.

John Crick, Bishop Auckland