Does the General Election threaten Brexit?

IT’S quite right that holding an election puts ‘our Brexit’ at risk — this must be the intention. The Prime Minister accepts that none of the objectives we crave for our restored independence are possible or were ever on offer. The election is designed to temper expectations, whatever the result. Look at the things the majority of us voted for. New passports: the EU will insist they’re endorsed with its logo. No money going to Brussels: scuppered and conceded. No more migrants: unattainable, bogged down in talk of endless years of immigration for ‘vital industries.’ Fishing rights restored: impossible — French and Spanish trawlermen have, in effect, already secured 50-year leases under the London Agreement. Gibraltar safe: the Spanish have already won rights of access and interference. Sadly, the Leave I voted for was never on offer.

MARTIN SOMERVILLE,

Winchcombe, Glos. I CONSTANTly see references in the media to the UK ‘crashing out of the EU without a deal’. What they mean is ‘leaving on WTO terms’.

The three largest traders with the EU are China, Russia and the U.S. They have no preferential deal, yet sell more to the EU than we do. A free-trade deal would benefit the EU, not the UK. Without ‘free trade’, the tariffs EU companies would pay the UK would be billions more than we would have to pay to them. WTO terms are being presented as ‘a disaster’, yet they’re the terms that govern our trade with 111 countries including the U.S. We should leave Europe now and leave the unelected bureaucrats to try to rescue the EU from its sudden drop in income.

DENIS ALLEN, Wellington, Shropshire.