Does Theresa May trust party members enough to ask what they think of the Chequers plan?

SIR – Conservative Brexiteers must demand a postal survey of all party members to reveal if they support the Chequers outcome. I doubt the Prime Minister has the guts to consult her own members properly.

Alan Chapman

Bingley, West Yorkshire

SIR – I was about to cancel my Conservative Party membership, cut up my membership card and post it to Downing Street.

I then read Eleanor Davis’s letter (July 11) urging members not to do this, as they will have a vote in any leadership contest. So I have hung on to it – for the time being.

Roger Hennah

Tadworth, Surrey

SIR – Your columnist William Hague was interviewed yesterday on the BBC about the Chequers draft White Paper. He said there were limitations to what one might expect from Brexit, due to the realities of the Irish border and the views of the directors of Jaguar Land Rover and BMW, among others.

May I remind Lord Hague, and the Prime Minister, that those of us who voted to leave the EU voted to restore our sovereign independence, and this is not negotiable.

Alexander Stilwell

Godalming, Surrey

SIR – A great number of your readers are appalled by the way Theresa May has betrayed the electorate. She must rank as the most indecisive PM in history. The Brexit farce is cast in her image and should not be a surprise – she is incapable of anything else.

The big question is: why did the Conservative MPS vote for her? After her performance at the Home Office, what did they think would happen? I have come to the conclusion that they are, in the majority, as delusional as Mrs May, and that this is how you think as a career politician.

The Conservative MPS are to blame. Having elected a damp squib they now lack the courage to remove her.

As some readers have suggested, we need a new party with parliamentary candidates who have worked in the real world and understand how the electorate feel. The sooner the better.

Peter Murray

Beeston, Nottinghamshire

SIR – On June 30 2016, after the Brexit referendum, you kindly published a letter by me saying: “If the Conservative Party should end up appointing a leader who was not a supporter of Leave, then it will have proved, unequivocally, that it remains out of touch with the majority of the voting public.”

When we have as the next prime minster a conviction politician who is in tune with the voting public, the United Kingdom will be great again.

George Cockburn

Bishops Castle, Shropshire

SIR – Theresa May hasn’t handled things particularly well, but she doesn’t deserve the vitriolic accusations of betrayal made by some contributors to your Letters page and elsewhere.

William Cook

Blandford, Dorset

SIR – Donald Roberts (Letters, June 11) says of Boris Johnson: “He is a colourful character and a loose cannon, and not to be trusted. We would be mad to think of him as a future prime minister.”

I recall much the same was said of Donald Trump before he defied the odds and was elected president.

Unconventional they both may be but at least they put the sovereignty of their nation first.

Michael Attrill

Battle, East Sussex

SIR – Christopher Howse (Comment, July 11) summarised precisely everything that I and hundreds of others feel: anger, betrayal, disgust, disappointment and much more.

However, in Scotland, this sort of duplicity is an everyday occurrence. I have been loyal to the Tories in the (dwindling) hope that a decent Brexit would quash the endless drivel of grievance politics we are dished up daily by an incompetent government.

For me, and thousands of Scottish Conservatives and Unionists, this is a doubly bitter blow. Until Mrs May goes, I will not continue to support the Conservatives. I will vote for no other party, but if Corbyn and his henchmen get in, then that will be Mrs May’s entire responsibility and legacy.

Felicity Thomson

Symington, Ayrshire

SIR – Whether you love or hate the Brexit proposals to be published now in a White Paper, you have to agree that they have been arrived at by a vigorous and open democratic process which has seen all of our elected representatives involved.

Compare this with the EU’S position, whatever that is, which appears to be the one decided by Michel Barnier and some nameless civil servants, the main aim of which is to punish Britain for wanting to leave the EU monolith.

The more I see, the more I believe we should go.

Malcolm Allen

Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire