Madam,

Mr MacMaster asks, at the end of his letter criticising Remainer MPs about their attitude to a no-deal Brexit, if he is missing something. Yes, he is!

Firstly, he should remember that Boris Johnson led the Leave campaign in the referendum arguing that Britain has to get its sovereignty and control of our laws back from the EU. Now he and Mr MacMaster complain when our Parliament exercises the sovereignty it never lost.

MPs of all persuasions have now passed a law that prevents the UK leaving the EU without a “deal” at the end of October. By his prorogation of Parliament for an unnecessarily excessive five weeks and his refusal to abide by this law, Boris Johnson has now clearly revealed his profound lack of respect for the sovereignty and democracy of our Parliament. Is this the behaviour of a Prime Minister that Mr MacMaster approves of?

Secondly Mr MacMaster is in denial about the catastrophic impact of leaving the EU without a deal on our economy, health and quality of life.

The Leave campaigners during the Referendum assured us that a deal enabling us to maintain free trade with the EU would be very easy to negotiate and leaving the EU would lead us to “sunny uplands” with new trade deals all over the world. To suggest otherwise was dismissed as “Project Fear”.

The reality is that, if we leave the EU without a deal, local farmers will be faced with tariffs of around 60 per cent on their vital exports of beef and lamb to the EU, rendering them economically unviable.

With the inevitable delays at our ports, Britain’s factories, which rely on “just-in-time” deliveries of materials and components, will be inoperable and we will all suffer from shortages of imported medicines and fresh food. If Boris Johnson and Mr MacMaster have their way, on 1 November Britain will be the only country in the world without a trade deal with anyone. There will then be no sunny uplands in Gwynedd!

We should be grateful to the MPs who have put our country’s best interests in front of their own jobs to protect us from the disastrous consequences of a “no-deal” Brexit.

Yours etc, David Naylor, Harlech.

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