SIR – Brexit is a given, it is going to happen, hard or soft, poached or boiled.
Therefore, can we ask your regular correspondents on the issue to pause for a couple of years and debate what the Prime Minister comes up with? During their two years’ pause can they turn their minds to debating two very serious topical domestic issues, the outcomes of which are not givens?
After nearly seven years of austerity, is the NHS safe, if it ever was safe, in the Govern-ment’s hands? And after Mrs Thatcher’s sale of council houses did her Government coll-eagues believe private house builders would deal with the consequential housing crisis?
In my humble, non-biased opinion the answer to both questions is certainly not, hence the double crisis.
Any plan to make cost savings (taking money out) in the NHS while producing figures trying to prove it is (going in) would need a Christian miracle to help us believe Mr Osborne and Mr Hammond.
Alan Holdsworth, Sandside Close, Bradford