So much damage done by so few

Sir, – We should all reflect long and hard on the insanity, recklessness and sheer uncaring stupidity of a prime minister who is willing to inflict a catastrophic no-deal Brexit on us while we are battling against a devastating pandemic his government has proved spectacularly incompetent in dealing with.

It is only a matter of weeks ago that Boris Johnson was talking about being back to normal by Christmas and I am sure we all remember his boast about how the UK Government would have a ‘ world beating ‘ test, track and tracing system.

For many people, especially those who have lost loved ones

and/or livelihoods during the coronavirus crisis there will be no Christmas this year and, with a no-deal Brexit as first foot, 2021 will likely greet us with significant delays in supplies of vital medicines, food shortages and price rises.

Even Michael Gove has admitted UK exports are likely to have substantial tariffs applied.

Boris Johnson and his cabinet have the financial means to cushion themselves against all of this but a major worry for the rest of us must be: Will the UK Government have prepared properly for no deal?

If their coronavirus strategy is any kind of yardstick, the omens are not good.

The prime minister loves to quote Winston Churchill and it

may well be that posterity will use a slight corruption of one of Mr Churchill’s most famous sayings to refer to the tenure of the present UK administration: “Never have so few done so much damage to so many in such a short time.”

Alan Woodcock. Osborne Place, Dundee.