Letters | 23 May 2019

Nigel’s nakedness

Sir: Rod Liddle is right to be wary of the hubris that Nigel Farage, the Brexit party leader, is beginning to show (‘The Brexit party delusion’, 18 May). His wish to smash the mould of British politics clearly shows that he expects his disciples to follow him into the promised land. The Andrew Marr interview and a recent Question Time appearance showed that under close questioning Farage gets rattled and resorts to dismissing his opponents and shouting them down. When will the public realise that this emperor has no clothes?
Stan Labovitch

Windsor, Berks

Nato expansion

Sir: Alan Judd writes of the ‘allegedly broken promise not to enlarge Nato following the collapse of the Soviet Union’ (‘Disputes over Putin’, 18 May). Well, the promise, if given, has certainly been broken, as Nato’s current borders show.

The only remaining question is whether such promises were made. And they were. The question was resolved by the publication of declassified US, Soviet, German, British and French documents by the National Security Archive at George Washington University in December 2017, fully reported by the National Interest.