Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando in his Talking Point Conscientious Objectors And Divorce (March 23) referred to the English backbencher who introduced a Private Member’s Bill for the abolition of the death penalty in the UK.

What Dr Pullicino Orlando failed to inform readers was that the Labour backbencher, Sydney Silverman, whose Private Member’s Bill was instrumental in the abolition of the death penalty in the UK, had been campaigning for its abolition for over 20 years prior to presenting his Private Member’s Bill in 1965. Hence, it would have been a gross injustice for anyone to accuse the gentleman of “political disloyalty”.

He did not stun neither his political party nor, and more importantly, his own voters by his stance.