This ‘No Brexit’ deal by the political elite treats the majority who voted Leave with disdain

SIR – I despair at the Government’s total disregard of the referendum. The losers look like winning, due to a betrayal by the political elite.

There is, I’m afraid, only one thing left for me and countless members of the electorate to do: vote for Jeremy Corbyn and get rid of this disgraceful self-interested bunch of metropolitan liberals who treat me with disdain because they think they know best.

The only alternative is for a new party to be made for the disfranchised.

Tavistock, Devon

SIR – Theresa May has said that if the EU Withdrawal Agreement is not approved, the alternative is “no Brexit”. At Prime Minister’s Questions this week she confirmed, as she has on many occasions, that the UK will leave the EU on March 29 2019.

Her statements do not match.

Sidmouth, Devon SIR – Mrs May is to return to Brussels tomorrow to “discuss further issues that need resolution”. What is there left to say “Yes” to?

Penpedairheol, Glamorgan

SIR – It is increasingly clear that, far from leaving the EU, as 17.4 million people instructed the Government to do in the 2016 referendum, the UK is remaining, on far worse terms, and having thrown away the key.

It saddens us that instead of addressing our fears about its draft Withdrawal Agreement (“the deal”), which are based on expert analysis by Martin Howe QC and others, the Government is resorting to panicky rhetoric about the dangers of no deal.

Apart from the fact that most of the world trades on WTO terms effectively (described by the Government as “no deal”), we are at a loss to understand the sudden change of heart by ministers whose refrain until recently was that a bad deal would be worse than no deal.

They were right. Although it was impossible to imagine the deal would be quite as bad as has transpired, the fact that it is only proves their original point. That some colleagues who were committed to remaining in the EU believe the deal achieves their aim says it all.

Earl Cathcart, Lord Cavendish of Furness, Lord Fairfax of Cameron, Lord Farmer, Lord Flight, Lord Framlingham, Lord Hamilton of Epsom, Lord Howard of Rising, Earl of Liverpool, Lord Mancroft, Lord Marlesford, Viscount Ridley, Lord Shinkwin, Earl of Shrewsbury, Viscount Trenchard

London SW1

SIR – Sir Bill Cash (Letters, November 21) says that Brexit is about “control over our laws and our democracy”, for which “people have fought and died”.

As a political sketch writer who spends much time sitting in the House of Commons, I have heard Sir Bill make this claim many, many times. Each time it marks again the lowest point the Brexit debate has reached. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in combat in the defence of the United Kingdom, but no soldier has yet fought and died, either for Leave or Remain.

Britain is hopelessly divided over Brexit. Sir Bill has no right whatsoever to claim this country’s war dead for his cause. It demeans their memory and is profoundly offensive.

The Independent London W8

SIR – If Brexit was a political thriller, the British PM betraying her nation with such gusto would turn out to be an agent not of the Russian FSB but of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service. When her treachery is discovered on the last page, she’s arrested and charged with high treason, the German chancellor resigns in disgrace and the EU, rocked to its foundations, disintegrates never to rise again. Should I start writing?

East Molesey, Surrey