SIR - Does it help in life if people are intellectually honest?

Do we get better outcomes if voters are led by the evidence in making their choices, rather than blindly sticking to a decision made in the past because they are too stubborn to admit they got that decision wrong?

The evidence is piling up that the choice for the UK to leave the EU was a wrong decision. There will be no additional £350 million per week for the NHS but rather the opposite as the government has less tax take from an economy that is hamstrung by the effects of Brexit.

Brexit will cost an additional £2 billion in an expanded civil service – made necessary by having to deal with the additional work caused by severing ourselves from the EU. Few people factored this in to their thinking when they voted on June 23, 2016.

Pig-headedness on the part of those who voted “Leave” and now refuse to re-evaluate continues to damage the best interests of this country.

As Mark Twain wrote: “It is easier to fool the people than to persuade them that they have been fooled”.

John Cole, Oakroyd Terrace, Baildon