Tony Blair’s touching tendency to be taken for a ride by EU chums

SIR – Perhaps Tony Blair’s most delightful quality is his faith in the promises made by his friends.

He once brought back from Brussels a promise of Common Agricultural Policy reform in return for Britain giving back a large part of the rebate that Margaret Thatcher had won with great effort. Brussels still pockets Mr Blair’s gift but never altered the CAP.

Now he has visited his old friend Jean-claude Juncker and announces that the EU will in some way meet British concerns about immigration if Britain returns to the Community fold.

Why on earth should he or we believe their promises? Mr Blair’s friends across the Channel were totally inflexible when David Cameron tried to negotiate terms on this very subject, even though they knew the British were going to give their verdict on those negotiations in a referendum.

Mrs May and David Davis must not accept promises from Mr Juncker&co on this or any other matter.

Tom Bliss

Fulbeck, Lincolnshire SIR – Not for the first time, Tony Blair has been selective in his reportage.

It is true that in August President Macron of France had proposed that “guest workers” from across the EU should be allowed to come to France for 12 months if they had a job.

What Mr Blair glossed over was the uproar this suggestion caused in Bucharest and Warsaw. The Polish prime minister retorted that Mr Macron was “young and politically inexperienced”, and the Poles and Romanians said they would block the proposal as being illegal under EU law.

They said that the suggestion threatened the EU’S existence.

Mr Blair’s intervention is again deeply undesirable.

Dorian Wood

Castle Cary, Somerset

SIR – “Find your voice and kill off Brexit, Blair tells MPS” was your headline yesterday. We recently had a referendum, where everyone able to vote was given the opportunity to vote on whether or not we stayed in the EU. The majority vote was to leave the EU.

Why, then, are so many people – including politicians, who have been elected by the majority – trying to scupper anything to do with Brexit?

Mr Blair is now inciting MPS to “rise up and oppose Brexit”. That, together with the EU intransigence and determination not to agree to anything, will make any agreement impossible.

Surely a quick exit, even without a deal, is going to be better than a bad deal. Get it over with and, after a period of adjustment, the country will soon be back to economic stability and vigour. However one voted, the current bickering on both sides is ridiculous and frustrating. AC Whitington

Grantham, Lincolnshire

SIR – Thank goodness for Tony Blair. I was beginning to fear that Brexit might yet be thwarted, but his intervention has made certain it won’t, whatever other Remoaners do and say. Bryan Clark

Ludlow, Shropshire