The people have already made their decision on Brexit, but Parliament won’t implement it

SIR – Two points might be added to Professor John Curtice’s excellent article (Comment, January 23) about a second referendum.

First, why do people say: “Parliament can’t decide, so let’s put it back to the people”? The people have already decided. It’s Parliament that won’t implement their decision.

Secondly, why should Parliament honour a second referendum when they ignored the first? Mark Ellis

Hornchurch, Essex

SIR – I have just received a letter from my local MP, Stephen Gethins, on our relationship with the rest of Europe.

At the general election he was elected MP with a majority of only two votes. However, it was a democratic choice, which we duly accepted.

The 2016 referendum result was not what he or his party, the SNP, wanted, so they will not accept the democratic choice of voters in that referendum. Pete Rogers

St Andrews, Fife

SIR – I would urge all Conservative Party members who voted to leave the EU to write to Brandon Lewis, the Conservative Party chairman, demanding that Tory MPS who are trying to thwart the wishes of the electorate be removed from the party.

A good start would be to remove Dominic Grieve, Philip Hammond and John Bercow. But there are many other MPS who are not only doing great damage to our democracy, but also irreparable damage to the Conservative Party.

A “no deal” is now our best deal and gives us what we voted for: a clean break. Those Tory MPS who are doing everything possible to avoid a no deal are making it abundantly clear that they have no intention of honouring and delivering our Brexit mandate. I have not witnessed such a shameful betrayal of democracy in my lifetime. Dr Alistair A Donald

Watlington, Oxfordshire

SIR – To ask Theresa May to remove the “no deal” is like asking a casino to remove the zero from a roulette table. She would be mad to do it. George Storrow

Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

SIR – Politicians need reminding that we didn’t vote to leave the EU because we didn’t like the trade arrangements. We voted to leave because we didn’t like the undemocratic governmental system. We voted to leave so that we wouldn’t be subservient to anyone.

The system hasn’t changed and we want no part of it. Come March, we don’t want to pay another penny to the EU, but mainly we don’t want any EU edicts forced on the British people.

The trade deal must stick to trade, not be used to force political changes. Alan Hardie-storey

Hythe, Kent

SIR – You report (Business, January 23) that Office for National Statistics figures show wages rising at their fastest rate in a decade, the proportion of people in work at its highest ever level, unemployment at its joint lowest level since the Seventies, inflation falling, a record number of people in work, and job vacancies at their joint highest on record.

If this is the result of uncertainty caused by the Brexit impasse, could we please have some more of it?

And if it is the result of Brexit distracting the Government from attending to its other duties, can we please keep it distracted? Robin Hawke

Dewsbury, West Yorkshire

SIR – Martin Gorst (Letters, January 23) suggests that, through Brexit, we are leaving home without knowing where we are going. In reality we are (we hope) coming home. Dr Paul Langmaid

Cowbridge, Glamorgan

SIR – I knew exactly where I wanted to go when I voted in the referendum. Unfortunately, I left the navigation to this clueless government.

Lt Col Paul Mcnulty (retd) Salisbury, Wiltshire