When will parliament come to its senses about Brexit?

It has long been obvious to many of us outside Parliament that the government should never have attempted to negotiate our way out of the EU. We voted simply to leave and, after MPs voted to honour the result, it should have been left to the civil service to make the necessary preparations.

Let us hope that the party in parliament will finally come to its senses and realise that no deal is the most desirable option — and in fact the only option consistent with its creed. They must find a new prime minister who believes that this is the best way and will abandon the so-called withdrawal agreement, restate those basic Conservative principles, appoint a government dedicated to honouring them and then lead us out on 31 October.

This letter appeared in this week’s magazine.