The Spectator

Letters | 30 May 2019

issue 01 June 2019

Leavers only, please

Sir: Your leading article (‘The end of May’, 25 May) correctly calls for the Conservative party to establish itself as ‘unequivocally the party of Brexit’. The meltdown at the EU elections confirmed this is now the only course of action open to it, if it wishes to survive. Conservative MPs should show they have finally woken up to reality. They need to send the membership two candidates with impeccable Leave credentials, and who are not in the current cabinet.

Placing any Remain-tainted candidates on the shortlist would display MPs’ continuing contempt for the party’s activists, supporters and donors. It would also show a curious lack of interest in their own job security.
David Soskin

(Former special adviser to John Major,  No. 10 Policy Unit)

Petworth,West Sussex

Learning the lesson

Sir: The fiasco of Theresa May’s ‘negotiations’ over Brexit should have taught all rational people that the EU will not renegotiate a deal so advantageous to itself when it is obvious that the British negotiators have not been serious about just walking away.

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