Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer

• I READ with interest the letter from your correspondent, (A betrayal on Brexit, July 7).

It may well be that Sir Keir Starmer appears hypocritical as regards changing his stance on Brexit.

If, however, the Labour Party is going to have any chance of winning a general election it has to regain the red wall seats as a minimum.

These areas voted for the Tories as they supported leaving the European Union and there is no way that Labour will win unless they smell the coffee and realise that simple fact.

I accept there are problems with the Northern Ireland situation and creating smoother trading relations with the EU, but most of our current problems come from the Covid-19 pandemic which effectively shut down the economy, and the current ongoing war in Ukraine.

We don’t need the “Singapore on Thames” option. There are shortages in some areas regarding employment, but this will have the advantage of pushing up wages.

We can allow immigration in the numbers required, but have criminal record checks first keeping out undesirable people. Freedom of movement would not permit these things.

We now have opportunities of looking outwards rather than inwards to the outdated EU structures. The real problem is that the obsessive federalists in the EU institutions continue to push for a one-size-fixes-all policy which created all kinds of problems not least the euro currency.

Remainers need to accept these facts and urge the EU to move to an organisation that is about co-operation and not integration; though I don’t expect their officials, who are zealots, to take any notice.

PAUL BONNY, NW5