Dover jams and Brexit

SIR – The French go-slow at Dover (Letters, July 25) has prompted several commentators on the Left to trot out the usual fallacies about how Brexit has deprived us of the unalloyed advantage of free movement.

Free movement was never about going through passport control more quickly, or having fun gap years in Bologna. It was always about keeping wages low for blue-collar workers by providing a limitless supply of cheap labour to Britain, France and Germany from poorer EU countries.

The Labour Party understood this before it lost its soul to Islington and Richmond upon Thames.

Alison Levinson

Hastings, East Sussex

SIR – Pierre-henri Dumont, a French MP whose constituency includes Calais, said: “We need to stamp every passport. We need checks on who is coming into the European Union.”

I commend this approach by the EU, and France in particular, for if they check the passport of every non-eu traveller and ask the reason for the holder’s visit to the EU, they will be able to apprehend all asylum seekers at source and stop illegal immigration. Robin Barrett

Beaminster, Dorset

SIR – I flew from London City Airport to the EU on Monday and there were no passport checks on departing. Mine was checked at my destination.

The solution to the Dover problem is to tear up the 2004 Le Touquet Treaty and put the French border controls back in Calais and Dunkirk.

Michael Eversden

Deal, Kent

SIR – It’s undoubtedly time to remind the French government that British tourists contribute around £5billion annually to the French economy. John B Winterburn

Earlswood, Warwickshire