Brexit is on track – and the Remainers’ pessimism must not stop it

SIR – Jeremy Corbyn claims that the Government doesn’t have a plan for Brexit, and his views are echoed by many other Remain supporters.

These people need to recognise that, in negotiation, once a detailed plan is revealed, the game is up. They should remember that David Cameron disclosed his hand before negotiating and came back with thin gruel.

They also need reminding of Mr Cameron’s words: “What the British public will be voting for is to leave the EU and leave the single market.” No one should be in any doubt as to what people voted for. However, Remainers are creating confusion over the single market. No longer being a member is the default position, but that doesn’t mean we will not have access to it.

Remainers should also heed the words of the head of the World Trade Organisation, Roberto Azevêdo, who recently said of Theresa May’s Brexit plan: “I think there is a major strategy. Since the vote there have been a lot of bright people spending 24 hours a day thinking about this and coming up with alternatives and a game plan.” It is time the Remainers started supporting this country, rather than talking it down and fuelling uncertainty. Eddie Hooper Gravesend, Kent SIR – Either Christopher Booker (Review, October 23) doesn’t really understand what people voted for on June 23, or he refuses to believe that they wanted to escape the clutches of an overbearing and federalist EU.

He says the only way to achieve a satisfactory exit is to remain in the European Economic Area and apply for membership of the European Free Trade Association. With this course of action, we would have to pay almost as much into the EU as we currently do, but with no say over its use. We would also have to keep many of the laws to which we are presently subject, including free movement of people.

Mr Booker suggests that Mrs May is right to take advice from the City and “others”. He presumably means big businesses – which have their own interests at heart. Leaving the EU and the single market would allow us to negotiate our own trade deals with non-EU countries, many of which are already lining up to start negotiations. David Morgan Shrewsbury SIR – Peter Poland (Letters, October 23) quotes Janet Daley (Comment, October 16) to attack the Brexit campaign: “When people are determined to accomplish a political end, they will say almost anything.”

He appears to be unaware of the irony. Living in France, he probably missed the doom and gloom in a government-produced leaflet sent to every UK household, along with the dire warnings from David Cameron, George Osborne, Mark Carney and the International Monetary Fund.

Mr Cameron threw in the towel after the vote because he had exhausted his ability to “say almost anything” – but to no avail. Trevor Anderson Wadhurst, East Sussex