It’s disingenuous to downplay the Brexit vote

SIR – By my calculation, a little more than a quarter (26.5 per cent) of Britain’s total population voted to leave the EU. Why Mike Tyler (Letters, June 24) thinks that is significant is not clear, as, of course, a rather smaller proportion voted to stay.

More appositely, 37.4 per cent of those entitled to vote, voted Leave – as did more than half of those who actually did so. The turnout was 72.2 per cent. The first two figures would, in a general election, result in a comfortable majority and a landslide victory respectively; the huge turnout would add further legitimacy.

Allocating the figures by parliamentary constituency would, using the House of Commons’s database, produce a pro-brexit working majority of 168. AV Bowyer

Wigan, Lancashire SIR – The march for a second EU referendum attracted a quarter of the number who took part in the Liberty and Livelihood March in London in 2002, in protest against the hunting ban. Charles Bell

Munlochy, Ross-shire

SIR – Greg Hands had the decency to resign as a minister rather than vote against a promise made to his constituents over Heathrow.

Would it not be nice if Anna Soubry and other Remainers were also to resign, having voted continuously against the mandate on which they were elected?

I suppose there is no legal mechanism for dealing with such MPS, but hope that their selection committees take a suitably dim view of their behaviour when considering their roles in the next election.