Time for a Brexit deal true to what we voted for

SIR – Abby Young-powell reports (August 29) on the outbreak of anti-immigration violence in Germany.

As I predicted in the early Nineties, when I wrote Against a Federal Europe and Brave New Europe, and have repeated since, the reason for the rise of the far Right is because of the democratic vacuum created by the ideological drive for political union and the undemocratic law-making procedure of the European Union.

It is not only true in Germany; it is endemic throughout large swathes of the EU. Accusations are made of “populism”, but proponents of European integration cannot grasp that individuals, such as those in Italy who wish to run their own economy and political system, and regard being in the euro as being in a German prison, are so frustrated that they can be persuaded to move from national democratic aspirations to extremism.

Through Brexit, Britain has – in the nick of time – responsibly set an example of how to achieve national self-government without extremism. Sir William Cash MP (Con) London SW1