The Cabinet must stop bickering over Brexit and get on with the job

SIR – What do we have to do to convince Philip Hammond and other Remainers in the Cabinet that the majority of the British electorate voted to leave the EU lock, stock and barrel?

Fudging the issue will leave us neither in nor out, meaning chronic frustration for the foreseeable future.

Our politicians need to get the job done – or risk losing theirs. John B Hunter

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

SIR – Carolyn Fairbairn, the directorgeneral of the CBI, has said it will be “impossible” to reach a deal by 2019.

I am sure most businesspeople do not understand that word and accept that we will be leaving the EU – including the single market and customs union – in 2019.

I am also sure that businesses will adapt in order to take advantage of the new possibilities that arise, rather than obstructing the democratic vote of their own customers and employees. Graham Mitchell

Haslemere, Surrey SIR – Talk from non-eu countries about free-trade agreements is encouraging – but it is just talk.

Free-trade agreements are not free, and those countries will keep a careful watch over our exit from the EU – knowing full well that we will be in a weak position, desperate for any deal, if we decide to fall off the cliff. Andrew Mckie

Knebworth, Hertfordshire

SIR – Sir Vince Cable has echoed Philip Hammond’s canard that nobody voted for Brexit in order to be poorer.

Well, I did. Or rather, like millions of others, for me the economic cost was not a factor. If we end up poorer, so be it. Sovereignty is beyond price. Roger Smith

Shefford, Bedfordshire

SIR – Ambrose Evans-pritchard (Business, July 6) describes immigration as “yesterday’s problem” because improvements in migrants’ home economies and (though he does not allude to it) the fall in the pound have rendered Britain less attractive. He questions the hard-line Brexiteers’ preoccupation with taking control of our borders in order to honour “what the British people voted for”.

As a Leave voter, so do I. I voted for Britain to escape the federalising grasp of Brussels; I was not especially worried about EU immigration. If only 5 per cent of Leavers had the same motivation as me, then we, combined with Remainers, form a small majority.

It may be that the Government’s hard-brexit stance is simply designed to intimidate the EU; but if not, we risk walking away empty-handed over a problem that most people are not too concerned about. Andrew Wigglesworth

Windermere, Cumbria

SIR – Remainers are constantly being told that their warnings about the economic consequences of Brexit have been proved unfounded.

Why? We haven’t even left yet. Gary Spring

Southgate, Glamorgan