It’s the EU’s own immigration system that is unfair to skilled migrants

SIR – As a skilled non-EU immigrant I have always been subject to immigration restrictions and I have never been able to claim benefits, including child benefit, although I have always paid UK taxes.

I have spent most of my working life in Britain and have never had any trouble travelling to and from Europe, apart from the mild indignity of having to join a longer queue.

The main difference, as things stand, is that it costs a lot of money, in visas, residency permits, etc to be a skilled non-EU immigrant.

From a true internationalist point of view, it is the current EU immigration system which is inequitable: freedom of movement for some, not for others. A move to bring in restrictions across the board is a welcome step towards an equitable system. Dr E R Gee Cupar, Fife SIR – During his visit to Theresa May, the French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron made much of his wish to attract British businesses and academics to France after Brexit.

As a lecturer in French and English, who has worked alongside many French colleagues in Britain, I would love to have worked in education in France.

However there is a strict rule in France that anyone working for the state education system is classified as a fonctionnaire or civil servant and must therefore have French nationality – so much, then, for free movement of labour. Ed Milner Cottingham, East Yorkshire SIR – We are currently on our yacht in the British Virgin Islands. Lucky us, you will say. But here the local people and their politicians fear what will happen to them after Brexit.

Has our Government given any thought to what it will do when our overseas territories lose substantial funding from the EU? John Kenneth Greenwood Yacht Tzigane, Virginia Gorda, BVI SIR – After the Second World War, the hereditary Lords voted in favour of nationalisation (notwithstanding that, in many cases, their own assets were involved), on the basis that it was the expressed wish of the people.

What a pity that the placemen peers that we have now seem not to have the same integrity when dealing with Brexit. Reginald Mills Worcester SIR – I fail to understand how parliamentary scrutiny of the final Brexit deal can have any meaningful outcome for those advocating it.

Terms for exit, which will have taken up to two years to negotiate, will be presented to Parliament sometime in late 2018 or early 2019. If they are rejected, then we leave without a deal in February 2019, an outcome which will presumably satisfy an absolute maximum of 52 per cent of the voting population. Mike Kaye Nocton, Lincolnshire