Starmer to the rescue...

From: Jas Olak, Vice Chair, Leeds for Europe.

MANY choosing in good faith in 2016 to quit the European Union based on since broken promises of Boris Johnson’s Vote Leave campaign must surely, even if reluctantly, now accept Mike Baldwin’s Brexit assessment – “a disastrous deal negotiated by an incompetent Government” (The Yorkshire Post, March 17).

But how do we now get Britain out of Mr Johnson’s deepening hole?

Single Market and Customs

Union access isn’t full membership of the EU, but it’s an arrangement enjoyed by countries with close economic links to it – such as Norway and Switzerland. It would resolve many of the problems Mike Baldwin outlines undermining UK-EU trade since the start of the year. And it’s something the likes of Mr Johnson and Michael Gove – before adopting a more extreme line – might have agreed was “Brexit”. Too soon for the Tories to look at this but Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party should be.

From: Hilary Andrews, Leeds.

HOW uplifting to read of the professionals turning their hands to other ways of earning their living (The Yorkshire Post, March 20). Britons have always been inventive and now we are free from the precautionary management of the economy practised in the EU I look forward to more enterprise here in the UK. The Remainers should look to the past wonderful innovations developed here and realise our future is bright.

Post, March 11) is perfectly correct in his assessment that regional devolution is stuck in a rut. Both Ministers and Civil Servants are currently not of a mind to relinquish power to the regions from London.

Until northern MPs collectively put party politics and personal egos to one side nothing of substance will be achieved and civil servants in Whitehall will continue to favour the South of England.