The Holloway Prison site

• A BLATANT piece of spin-doctoring came through our door.

In a puff-piece about the Holloway Prison redevelopment entitled A Victory for our Community, Labour Party candidates claimed that “responding to a long-running campaign, backed by Tufnell Park Labour, the developer [Peabody] also agreed to the construction of a women’s building for the community, the first of its kind in the UK”.

Nonsense. There is no building, and no victory.

Instead, on site of the UK’s 160-year old women’s prison where the Suffragettes were punished for their campaign to get women the vote, there will be a single floor at the bottom of a residential tower block.

Which is exactly what Peabody proposed two years ago, ignoring the council’s admirable 2017 planning document that required any developer of the site to construct a women’s building in order to commemorate the site’s history and provide the services to help keep women out of prison.

The candidates can’t tell a floor from a building, or a victory from abject surrender. They won’t get my vote.

ANDREW WILSON, N19