The Government strategy for dealing with Brexit: continuing shambles

SIR – We are in such a mess with Brexit because Theresa May came up with the Chequers plan in secret, with the help of only a small group of advisers. When it was presented to the Cabinet, MPS, the press and the public, the problems became only too apparent.

Now, from Olly Robbins’s overheard bar chat, we learn that Mrs May has a plan that she intends to bully MPS into accepting when they see it for the first time at the end of March.

Whatever party anyone supports, or whether they voted Leave or Remain, is there a single person who wants the Government to be run in this underhand and incompetent way?

SIR – What business does a senior civil servant have talking of government affairs in a hotel bar?

SIR – When will MPS wake up to the fact that Mrs May has hoodwinked them? In the time left, she has no intention, indeed no chance, of significantly altering her Withdrawal Agreement.

The softening-up process continues. Surely nobody believes that Olly Robbins just happened to be talking in a loud voice in a Brussels bar – with a well known ITV reporter within hearing distance.

SIR – It’s the law that we will leave the EU on March 29, either with a deal or with no deal. However, the unelected civil servant Olly Robbins has decided to take no deal off the table.

Not content with usurping two Brexit secretaries, it seems that Mrs May’s Rasputin now overrules the law.

SIR – I cannot understand the strategy of our politicians and Establishment. The Governor of the Bank of England has repeatedly given dire warnings of a downturn in the economy if we leave the EU with no deal. Now he says it could be a springboard to a “new global order” of free trade.

Yet Olly Robbins is reported to have told a companion in a Brussels bar that MPS would be given a choice of a revised deal or a long delay.

Those who voted to leave in the 2016 referendum did so to regain our independence from the undemocratic EU. The longer this saga plays, the more people will join the Brexit Party and vote for it.

SIR – I get the impression that Theresa May releases rumours of her Brexit strategy so that she can then steer away from the plan with the worst public reaction.

We need to convince her that a long delay to Brexit will cause her many more problems than a simple no-deal scenario.