Do the Brexit mutineers think that undermining Theresa May will help her get the best deal?

SIR – The Brexit rebels (Letters, November 16) claim to want Britain to negotiate a good deal.

Could they explain how undermining the Prime Minister will achieve this? Barry Cook

Rufford, Lancashire

SIR – The Brexit “mutineers” state: “We have accepted the result of the EU referendum and accept that our country is leaving the European Union.”

You could have fooled me. Sid Davies

Bramhall, Cheshire

SIR – Only the most naive would believe the rebels’ claim that they want merely to improve the Brexit Bill, rather than delay it.

This is simply not true. Indeed, it seems clear that at least some of the rebels would sooner have a Corbyn administration than part with their beloved EU. What the Government and the Conservatives need to realise is that if Brexit doesn’t happen soon then a justifiably furious electorate will sweep them away in disgust and the hard Left really will be in power. Terry Smith

London NW11

SIR – The signatories point out that “many of us are lawyers”.

This may explain the lack of commercial perspective in terms of adopting a negotiating position, as well as the failure to grasp the enormous opportunities for Britain once we have left the EU. Adrian Johnson

London SW19

SIR – The letter would be more plausible if the list of signatories had not been headed by Ken Clarke: a well-known Europhile, famous or infamous, depending on your point of view, for his anti-brexit stance. Malcolm Francis Symonds

Ashtead, Surrey SIR – The MPS say they are not being obstructive just for the sake of it; but then, to adapt Mandy Rice-davies, they would, wouldn’t they?

I presume Mr Clarke would also argue that having private discussions with Michel Barnier behind closed doors, without instruction to do so, was not being “obstructive”.

Their history suggests that pessimism about any Brexit result is their default position. Maybe we should listen instead to people such as Sir James Dyson, who offer a much more upbeat message. Peter Thompson

Sutton, Surrey

SIR – Why do so many of our MPS lack the confidence to assume their democratic responsibilities?

They would rather cling to the skirts of the EU and have our laws decided by unelected bureaucrats, who have tied us up in red tape, restricted our trade with the rest of the world, ruined our fisheries, complicated our agriculture and changed the cultural identity of our society – while overcharging us for the privilege.

We were a successful sovereign nation for hundreds of years. The majority of British voters had the courage to reclaim that sovereignty. Yet our representatives, while paying lip-service to Brexit, seek to frustrate this by complicating the process. Pauline Coleman

Painswick, Gloucestershire

SIR – Theresa May’s plan to enshrine a Brexit leaving date in law (report, November 16) is all very well – but, should that date come and go without Brexit, who would address the failure and who would take the blame? Bruce Denness

Whitwell, Isle of Wight

SIR – It seems that poor Mrs May is in a no-win situation: she is castigated for failing to give clarity in the Brexit process and yet, as soon as she gives clarity in the form of a definitive date for leaving, she is roundly criticised. David Parsons

Deepcut, Surrey