Our negotiators have wasted time on the wrong idea of Brexit

ANTHONY Hilton’s incisive piece [“We think the EU will be hit by Brexit — but we don’t get it”, November 13] outlining the simple factual choice involved in Brexit — which all the Conservative bluster about “sovereignty” has never addressed — underlines how much time has been wasted by David Davis and our other negotiators. And how much public money, I wonder, has also been wasted over what is intangible to all but those in government? Is this really democracy?

Steve Gooch

ANTHONY Hilton writes that “Article 50 is concerned with the divorce. Only when we have separated can we begin to embark on the future relationship.” The EU has driven the sequencing of talks but there was nothing in Article 50 saying that its interpretation was correct. The Government made a huge mistake in accepting it.

Tim Russell