A day without retail

SIR – This year Remembrance Sunday falls on November 11 (Armistice Day), making it exactly 100 years since the guns fell silent.

MPS and peers would gain huge respect by suspending arguments about Brexit for just five minutes in order to come together and legislate for retail closure on this day. The imperatives are to enhance the peace, decorum and reflection inherent in Remembrance Sunday, and to enable more working people and their families to partake in events in their communities. Retail would benefit as more goods would be bought before the closure, and upon reopening.

MPS may care to sign Kate Hoey’s early day motion 1036, setting out the case for closure – endorsed by the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) in a unanimous vote at its annual conference. John Barstow

Usdaw Executive Council Pulborough, West Sussex