SIR - I find it strange that T&A columnist Chris Moncrieff never mentions the fact that the Conservative Party is riven with division over the EU.
Three quarters of their MPs are pro-EU, yet you would never believe that post-referendum. Conservative voters were strongly for leaving the EU; a position at odds with their MPs.
To vote in such a fashion to trigger Article 50, against their own beliefs, demonstrates, without a shadow of a doubt, that the government places the interests of their own party unity above that of the national interest.
I find this position intellectually untenable and hypocritical in the extreme.
Chris never mentions that John Major resigned as party leader to force them to put up or shut up. He won then; but they appear to have won now, despite being few in number.
The only person to emerge with any dignity, with principle intact, is Kenneth Clarke. He will be proven correct.
This will all go badly wrong, as unprincipled action always does, in the end.
Ian Parsons, Alexandra Road, Eccleshill
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