‘The UK is not threatening anyone with a hard border anywhere. The EU is’

• THE real threat to the UK’s reputation would be acquiescing in your Best for Britain correspondent’s misguided notion that a border which already exists between the UK and the EU in Ireland undermines the Belfast Agreement but that an additional one, imposed by a foreign power splitting the UK down the Irish Sea, would not, (The PM’s actions threaten the UK’s global reputation, September 18).

The EU never stops bellyaching about protecting the integrity of its single market but is outraged when the UK does the same thing. The UK is not threatening anyone with a hard border anywhere. The EU is.

How would they respond if a foreign power had the impertinence to try to impose its authority on goods travelling between, say, Hamburg and Berlin or Paris and Marseilles in the way that they want to on goods travelling between Liverpool and Belfast?

I would be amused to see the response if the EU had the temerity to tell Russia what they can and can’t do because they have a land border with Finland.

The Withdrawal Agreement contains clauses guaranteeing the sovereign integrity of the UK above all else and the Internal Market Bill has only become necessary to protect this because the EU and their UK supporters have threatened to use a loophole to breach it in one last desperate and pathetic attempt to derail UK independence.

And far from seeing Britain breaking international law (which we are not) the rest of the world will see Britain standing up to a bullying, supranational, organisation in its death throes, thrashing about trying to impose its will on a state that has had the chutzpah to walk out.

Attempting to blackmail the UK with the threat of war in Ireland because they can’t get their way on a trade deal beggars belief. And it clarifies why we left that benighted organisation in the first place.

MARTIN KENNEDY
Brewer Street, W1