Brexit shambles

While the current internal wrangles at the forefront of the Labour Party (antisemitism) and the Conservative Party (Islamophobia) are serious issues, they have successfully diverted headlines away from Brexit and the cliff-edge position the country is in if no deal is secured.

As I write we are 233 days from exiting the EU and 41 of those days our MPS are on holiday! As we now know, exiting the EU will have devastating consequences for us all, affecting our daily lives.

Some of those consequences will be future imports/exports deals, food labelling, subsidies for our farmers, the fishing industry, availability of medicines, the list could go on.

Then there is the issue of free movement, which due to uncertainly has seen devastating consequences this year for our fruit farmers/producers, unable to secure enough labour to pick the harvest. Only this week we have had the suggestion that many women could be forced out of the workplace to take up caring rolls as a result of shortages of European workers in the care sector.

Internal wrangling within the two main political parties at Westminster needs to be resolved with urgency, but so does a deal on Brexit for the future of so many aspects of our daily lives.

Theresa May on her appointment as PM committed herself

and her government to a Brexit that will work for us all. To date we have only seen a Brexit shambles, working for no one, and time is running out amid those internal wrangles.

CATRIONA C CLARK Hawthorn Drive, Banknock,

Falkirk