‘There is a deep and disgruntled hatred of what is now the old regime, for having led the country – with its plentiful support – away from the European Union’

• MARTIN Kennedy makes a very strong point which is worth repeating: there is a deep and disgruntled hatred of what is now the old regime, for having led the country – with its plentiful support – away from the European Union, (Lockdowns not Brexit are the cause of the country’s economic woes, 14 July).

I was told that a very recent BBC (radio) interviewer asked each of the Conservative leadership hopefuls to recall the lies of the previous leadership. The lesson to which Kennedy points is that all that is now over.

The essence of the great change was not that we knew we would have – and are having – major trading and energy-cost difficulties (now hugely magnified by the Eastern War) but that the country was removed from its ultimate oversight by the European Court of Justice.

That was and remains the core of the return to the UK’s own responsibility for our own affairs. This is a retrieval that some other European nations now seek to emulate; it is a phenomenon that has been largely ignored by our press and broadcast discussion, but which should be brought back into focus.

Well said, Martin Kennedy, and we must not just pray now but do anything we can to help the next set(s) of the country’s leaders to achieve not just independence but honesty as well as prosperity in our national life.

MALLORY WOBER
Lancaster Grove, NW3