Future of Brexit

sir – Nick Timothy (Comment, November 29) says that “Brexit was never going to be a neo-thatcherite mission to shrink the state and turn Britain into a European Singapore”. Yet that is precisely why I and most Conservatives supported it.

Brexit can succeed, and endure, only if a low-tax, deregulated, proinvestment economic model based on free trade – such as the one outlined in the 2017 Conservative manifesto, co-authored by Mr Timothy – is swiftly adopted.

“The UK will be a global champion for an open economy, free trade, and a free flow of investment, ideas and information,” the manifesto said. “Poor and excessive regulation limits growth so we will continue to regulate more efficiently.”

I fear that the economic model adopted by the current Government – and seemingly supported by Mr Timothy – will reduce growth, restrict enterprise and trade, increase taxes, cut living standards and inevitably lead to the election of a government that takes the country back into the EU. Philip Duly Haslemere, Surrey