The moral course for MPS who wish to honour the referendum result
SIR – We believe that, if Britain leaves the European Union as planned on March 29, “no deal” will prove to be the precursor to a very good deal indeed.
At the time of the 2016 referendum, the choice was between leaving the EU (Brexit) and remaining within it. After Remainers lost the referendum, they set up a new choice between “hard” and “soft” Brexit – in reality, between real departure and leaving in name only. Now, “hard/real” Brexit has been redefined as a “catastrophic no-deal Brexit” and purportedly removed from the table by a Parliament of Remainers who hold a country with a majority of Leavers in contempt.
Charles Moore concludes (Comment, March 16) that Brexiteers like us now face only the “two wretched options” of Brexit in name only or the indefinite postponement of any Brexit, and says that he does not envy our dilemma in choosing between them. Yet our moral course is clear: it is not our fault that we are confronted by two unacceptable choices, but it will be our fault if we cast a positive vote in favour of either for fear of the other.
Adam Afriyie MP (Con)
Lucy Allan MP (Con) Crispin Blunt MP (Con) and 20 others: see telegraph.co.uk
SIR – MPS in favour of Brexit are saying that they are tempted to vote for Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement so long as she agrees to resign afterwards (report, March 17).
To contemplate locking the country into an appallingly bad deal with the EU in perpetuity simply as an expedient to get rid of a Jonah of a Prime Minister would be a betrayal of gargantuan proportions. Justin Smith
Salisbury, Wiltshire SIR – A fish goes bad from the head. Joann Emerson Truro, Cornwall
SIR – If only Mrs May had played hardball with the EU as she has with her MPS and wider party members. It seem likely that the European Research Group will swing behind her deal rather than risk no Brexit. She may think that she has won, but among those who voted to leave the EU, she will be forever vilified for reneging on the promises made in her Lancaster House speech and in her manifesto at the last general election.
Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 Committee, and his team must go immediately after the next “meaningful vote” and tell her that her time is up. Mrs May must not be allowed anywhere near the next phase of Brexit, no matter what it is. Dr Chris Topping
Pilling, Lancashire
SIR – I am 76 next birthday.
What chance do I have, before I finally pop my clogs, of seeing:
1) An unequivocal total Brexit; or 2) Tottenham Hotspur winning the Premier League? Derek Gregory
Cuffley, Hertfordshire