I’d like to thank Mr McGowan-Scanlon for drawing attention to the efforts of our MP, Dr Sarah Wollaston, to challenge Brexiteers and seek a new vote on the final Brexit deal.

If you believe that Parlia­ment should bend to ‘the will of the people’, then the mess Parliament has made of negotiations necessitates a new vote, with the option of simply remaining in the EU and all the benefits that brings.

I can’t imagine why even the most trenchant Brexiteer would be scared of giving the people a chance to give their view on the outcome of negotiations. If the Brexiteers really are, as Mr McGowan-Scanlon claims, a ‘silent’ majority, could that be because they have nothing to say?

Nothing to say to the people of Northern Ireland about the imposition of new hard border?

Nothing to say to the ­workers at car plants who rely on just-in-time delivery to be competitive in world markets?

Nothing to say to the EU ­citizens who have made their lives here and still don’t know what their status is?

Nothing to say to everyone in the UK who valued their right to live and work ­anywhere in the EU?

Nothing to explain why being the only developed nation with no trade deals in place would be beneficial to anyone?

Amid all the sound and fury, the silence is quite deafening.

Tom Butcher

Well Park Place

Stoke Fleming