Bad deal or no deal

SIR – Dominic Grieve, the former attorney general, claims to have killed off the prospect of a “no deal” Brexit (report, June 13).

Are we to believe that Mr Grieve and the Tory rebels will be happy to accept a “bad deal”? Michael Edwards

Haslemere, Surrey

SIR – Anna Soubry has told the House of Commons that she has to vote with her conscience when it comes to Brexit.

Surely the time for this soulsearching was before she fought a general election as a member of the Conservative Party, whose manifesto pledged to deliver a smooth, orderly Brexit with control of our own laws, control of immigration and new trade agreements with other countries.

If her conscience prevented her voting for these pledges then she should have resigned from the Conservatives and stood as an independent prospective MP. John A Lavender

Solihull

SIR – Why is the business magnate George Soros, who is a Hungarian-american and not a British citizen, being allowed to interfere in a British referendum? Rodney Howlett

Darley Dale, Derbyshire

SIR – The EU has in the region of 12,500 trade tariffs. These range from 35 per cent on sugar cane to protect French sugar-beet producers to 16 per cent on oranges to protect Spanish orange producers.

Why all the outrage about President Donald Trump’s steel tariff? Patrick Murphy

Thornton-cleveleys, Lancashire