Holiday from Brexit

SIR – I was surprised and disappointed that Parliament didn’t cancel the summer recess, given how many politicians have said that Brexit negotiations require parliamentary scrutiny, as well as ministerial action – to say nothing of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill.

Time is running out. Meanwhile, we hear of party divisions, leadership challenges and self-interested briefings against colleagues. If politicians were serious about the challenge we face, surely they would have given up some of their holiday to get back to work on our behalf before the conference season takes over.

Rev Canon Robin Morrison Barry, Glamorgan

SIR – I have voted Conservative all my life, not for what the party can do for me but for what it can do best for the country. Some problem with Europe has always pulled the Conservatives apart. I pray they can return from their break refreshed, to pull together under Theresa May to tackle surely the most important peacetime project ever – the best possible Brexit result.

Noel Charles Silverstone, Northamptonshire

SIR – Your professorial correspondents (Letters, July 25) are disingenuous in suggesting that Survation’s latest poll shows a majority for Remain.

The 53 per cent who answered Yes to a poll asking whether people want a referendum (on the terms of a Brexit deal) will include an unknown number who would rather leave with no deal than support unacceptable terms.

You didn’t need to be a university professor to spot their non sequitur.

Dr AE Hanwell York