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UK Cabinet rebels threaten to resign once more over Brexit and presumably by so doing put the Prime Minister under pressure. Nigel Farage “demands’’ action from the sidelines and our own opportunistic First Minister adds her tuppence-worth to the chorus turning on the wounded leader, presumably thinking she can pick up some crumbs from the table.

In truth, if the Cabinet rebels, presumably including Liam Fox, Esther Mcvey and Penny Mourdant, and join david davis and Boris Johnson in quitting, few would even notice the loss and perhaps Ms May could make some real headway with better replacements. She need only mention Jeremy Corbyn and that should help concentrate minds. Giving in to such nonentities is tantamount to surrender.

For the record, I voted Remain but accept the 2014 and 2016 referendum results as the democratic will of the people of the UK and Scotland. ALEXANDER MCKAY New Cut Rigg, Edinburgh

Enough is enough. I am very pro-european, quite different from the non-elected, non-accountable European Commission, but enough is enough.

Our only “success” in “negotiating” was by Margaret Thatcher, with first David Cameron and now Theresa

May sent packing. Let’s just get out next March and then start negotiating a trade deal. This would satisfy our fishermen, our farmers, since the EU deal ends in 2020, and our pocket.

After we’ve finished concluding our deals with Australia, Japan, India and America we can listen, at our leisure, to any proposals the EU Commission might put forward.

JAMES WATSON Randolph Crescent, Dunbar

Re “Cabinet told to ‘stand firm’ as Europe demands ‘new facts’ to solve Irish riddle” (news, 17 October), I agree with Prof Patrick Minford of Cardiff University that the UK should offer the EU a free trade deal (free trade is a natural right anyway, though that’s never mentioned).

The EU will very likely say no, and so be the one to erect a hard border, thus making not a few Irish voters more inclined towards an Irexit. (London) derry should be made a freeport, bringing business and employment advantages not only to the county, but also to County Donegal in the republic.

GEORGE MORTON Gauss Str, Stuttgart, Germany