The campaign to prevent a damaging Brexit

SIR – Contrary to the Telegraph’s claim of a “secret plot”, Best for Britain has always been entirely open about our aim to stop a Brexit that will cost jobs, reduce living standards and damage the fabric of British society.

This is stated on our website, in the emails we sent to our tens of thousands of members, and in our communications with journalists.

You highlighted the kind donation from the philanthropist George Soros to our campaign (report, February 8), but said nothing of the tens of thousands of small donations from people across the UK that add up to nearly half a million pounds. These contributions powered our general election campaigning before Mr Soros made his donation to our work.

As democrats, we will defend to the last your newspaper’s right to criticise our campaign’s views on Brexit. But it is dangerous terrain indeed in a democracy for MPS and former advisers to the Prime Minister to start pronouncing on perfectly legitimate donations to a civil society group. Eloise Todd

CEO, Best for Britain London WC2

SIR – Fraser Nelson’s piece on George Soros and Brexit (“Soros champions democracy but on Brexit he is backing the wrong side”, Comment, February 9) is excellent.

Bureaucracy without clear responsibility to any democratic control is, of course, what Mr Soros should not support. Nor should he, or anyone else, condone Brussels’s dreadful lack of control over its own financial affairs. Stephen Patrick

Sandwich, Kent

SIR – It is now surely the case that Brexit is dead in the water. The EU knows full well that if it sticks to its guns and refuses to engage in realistic negotiations, a fatally weakened Government will be unable to persuade Parliament to endorse what will inevitably be a hard Brexit.

The Government can do one of two things: throw in the towel now and withdraw Article 50, or soldier on in the forlorn hope that a miracle may occur and a soft Brexit is achieved, with terms that are approved by Remainers and Leavers.

In other words: face electoral oblivion now, or later. Alan Quinton

Eastbourne, East Sussex