A half-baked Brexit deal

AFTER seven defeats in the House of Commons and illegally proroguing Parliament, the Prime Minister triumphantly announced that he had secured an “ovenready Brexit deal”. we would inject billions into the NHS and would be free to abolish VAT or set whichever rate we wished. The canny Scots saw behind this nonsense and almost two-thirds of us voted against Brexit.

Now after countless issues with fish farmers, lorry drivers, meat producers and indeed the entire population, it is now abundantly clear that all is not well with the Northern Ireland Protocol (“Hopes of breaking Stormont stalemate over Brexit diminish”, The Herald, May 17). This is not helped by the Foreign Secretary announcing that she is going to unilaterally tear up an agreement which was previously agreed in good faith with the EU. Not the wisest way to conduct diplomatic discussions.

Now, I have never seen the Prime Minister’s oven and I have absolutely no desire to view it, but I would suggest that all food coming from it will be half-baked rather like him. Clearly his definition of “oven-ready” differs from the norm.

Stewart Falconer, Alyth.