Jeopardising peace in Europe

BORIS Johnson is the 15th Prime Minister in my lifetime, but no previous leader during these years, has had such a disastrous start in office.

He has already earned a reputation for being untrustworthy.

He vowed he had no plans to prorogue Parliament and then announced such a plan a few days later.

It stretched credibility that he needed such a lengthy period to prepare to launch his “exciting” new programme for Government.

Former Prime Minister, Sir John Major, criticised Mr Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament in this time of national crisis and said the Government was using “bluster and threat in a climate of aggressive bullying ”.

Sir John took aim at Dominic Cummings urging Boris Johnson to ditch his “over mighty advisors.”

Brexit is the most serious crisis facing our country since the beginning of war in 1939.

Memories of my own wartime childhood are still clear. In particular, I recall the dark damp shelter in our back garden where I was sometimes taken to sleep with the rest of my family during the air raids.

I hated the spiders most of all. There were also times when my parents listened to a man on the radio they called ‘ Winston’ talk about the war. All I understood was that they trusted this man to keep us safe and make it all come right in the end.

At the end of hostilities Winston Churchill became a passionate advocate of peace .Two World Wars had devastated Europe and claimed the lives of millions of young people in his lifetime .

Churchill and fellow world leaders saw a better future for Europe based on mutual cooperation and respect.

Over 60 years ago the foundations were laid for the European Union we know today . It has delivered peace and prosperity and my children and grandchildren have not know the horrors of conflict and for that I am profoundly grateful

Jo Johnson’s departure from Government highlights the corrosive effect of this Brexit fiasco which has caused such deep divisions in our communities .

We have a responsibility to future generations not to take any action which threatens their right to live in peace .

How would Churchill view the behaviour of his party today?

Jill Natusch Sidmouth, Devon