Labour’s customs-union policy will now make or break Theresa May
SIR – A vote on leaving the customs union must be made a vote of confidence in the Government.
The last election was called too soon for Brexit to be a deciding factor because Labour refused to show its hand. Now that it has done so, the country can finally see that it would not honour the result of the referendum if it were in power.
Theresa May must not buckle under pressure from those Conservatives threatening to rebel. If she does, she will surely be toppled anyway. Better that she makes a principled stand. Jack William Ruddy
London SW6
SIR – Anna Soubry maintains she wants a “good deal” from the EU, but she and fellow Tory Remainers, such as Nicky Morgan, Stephen Hammond, Heidi Allen, Jonathan Djanogly and Sarah Wollaston, affect negotiations badly.
By making our Government look disunited on how we will leave the EU, and by tying David Davis’s hands, they are certainly damaging Britain’s ability
to get a decent deal from Brussels. Margaret Goslett Richmond, Surrey
SIR – Are Anna Soubry and her Tory rebel chums “useful idiots”? Simon Sanders
Metheringham, Lincolnshire
SIR – Jeremy Corbyn takes pride in his international socialist credentials and yet he seems to be quietly protecting the interests of the big corporations by locking Britain into a customs union controlled by the EU lobbying shop.
This EU has created devastating youth unemployment in Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and France. Gerald Heath
Corsham, Wiltshire
SIR – The workers that Mr Corbyn’s plan will most benefit all work for German car companies. Dennis Spruce
Welwyn, Hertfordshire SIR – Mr Corbyn’s big idea is to take us back to the future – back to the Common Market we were persuaded to accept in 1975 in return for surrendering our fishing grounds and world-wide trading arrangements.
We did that and found ourselves dragged down the federal European path that is the real Eurocrat agenda.
Mr Corbyn seems to imagine we can be half-in and half-out, but does he not realise his scheme would have us on the outside looking in, while decisions affecting our future are made by an organisation with no commitment to our well-being? Tom Bliss
Fulbeck, Lincolnshire
SIR – Twenty months after the decision was made, Jeremy Corbyn argues that “it makes no sense for the UK to abandon EU agencies and tariff-free trading rules that have served us well”.
Does he not see that the time for such arguments was before the referendum, and the boat has sailed? Martin Burgess
Beckenham, Kent