Letters | 11 April 2019

All Cameron’s fault

Sir: In this time of febrile political speculation, there can have been few more arresting subject headings on your Letters page than ‘Not Cameron’s fault’ (6 April). Your correspondent Mike Jeffes added to the sense of unreality by writing that ‘Cameron did nothing wrong’. You need to be neither a Remainer nor Brexiteer to follow in horror the painful result of Cameron’s opening of this Pandora’s Box in 2016. In the 2010 and 2015 elections, the subject of Europe was well down on the list of voter concerns, but with a mixture of hubris, stupidity, and narrow political interest, Cameron’s decision to call the referendum has driven us into this political quagmire. Even more extraordinary is his claim in January that he has no regrets over calling the referendum. Most people in the UK would beg to differ. Leslie Buchanan Barcelona

Hostility to Ireland?

Sir: Congratulations on your having presided over 500 editions of the Spectator.