Shocking attempt to bring down the Government with the help of foreign money

SIR – I read the exclusive report on your front page (February 8) with shock and anger. To learn that George Soros, who caused untold economic loss to the United Kingdom in the past, has been joined by other very wealthy individuals to thwart the democratic will of the electorate to leave the EU was in itself shocking. But to learn that some parliamentarians were joining forces with him made me angry.

There has been much talk of Russian interference in that 2016 referendum and in the American presidential election of the same year. Yet here we have a clear example of foreign money being used to influence the political direction of our country, apparently abetted by people from both Houses of Parliament.

Talk of providing funds for advertising in order to overthrow the result, and thus to bring down the current Prime Minister and provoke another election, is shameful.

During the EU referendum campaign, my party, the Ulster Unionists, advocated a Remain vote. However, the electorate took a different view. We fully accept the result and are now working to get the best deal for the United Kingdom with the EU. Everybody in public life should be doing the same, instead of undermining the Government in the difficult negotiations with Brussels.

If parliamentarians, of whatever stripe, believe that colluding with wealthy foreign or domestic business people will produce a different result, they are deluded. They could end up driving the United Kingdom further away from Europe instead of creating a mutually beneficial partnership with Brussels after March 2019. Lord Empey

London SW1

SIR – Let me see if I understand this correctly. George Soros, an impossibly wealthy foreign national with no particular allegiance to this country (other than the money he can make out of it), has, at the age of 87, taken it upon himself to attempt to overthrow the democratically expressed wish of the British people and reverse the Government’s declared decision to leave the EU.

If he succeeds, the Government will fall and the consequences for this country will not bear thinking about.

The sheer arrogance of his actions is beyond description. Democracy is not an End of History given; it must be continually fought for – not the least of the reasons we chose to leave the EU in the first place. Philip J Ashe

Garforth, West Yorkshire

SIR – If Mr Soros “dedicated much of his fortune to fighting nationalism and promoting democracy”, why should he fly in the face of that philosophy and attempt to overturn the result of the most quintessential form of democracy, a national referendum? Keith Davies

Telford, Shropshire

SIR – Barack Obama, when president of the United States, visited Britain in an attempt to bolster Remain during the referendum campaign – an unsubtle and wrong-headed interference in the internal politics of a foreign country.

Mr Soros has made a similar attempt to interfere in Britain’s internal politics. R F Dickinson

Taunton, Somerset

SIR – No matter how successful as businessmen, I have no confidence in the political judgment of Mr Soros or Sir Martin Sorrell, neither of whom has stood for any kind of election. Chris Minter

London SW6

SIR – Before George Soros and his fellow plotters descend into the world of Guy Fawkes, maybe he would be wise to consider that history is littered with dictators who were unable to accept the will of the majority.

Whatever individuals’ opinions, they should understand that life in this country is based on democracy, where the will of the people prevails. Stephen Reichwald

London NW8