Leavers will long to be back in EU

In his letter published on December 2 Edward de la Coste writes: “We are restricted in trading with the rest of the world while we are part of the EU.”

While it is true membership of the EU does place certain constraints on the UK’s trade with non-EU countries, these constraints have negligible effect on our ability to do business with the rest of the world.

Brexiters like to pretend were it not for the EU the volume of trade we do outside the EU would be vastly greater.

It most definitely would not. Consider this. After having made allowance for the difference in size between the population of the UK and the