I DISAGREE with a lot of Chris Moncrieff's article from August 8, 2017.

The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, is responsible for the management of the UK’s finances, and Brexit is going to have an enormous, and almost certainly bad, effect on our economy.

It is thus entirely appropriate that he should make his views known, rather than leaving everything to a pair of hard-line right-wingers (David Davis and Liam Fox).

I agree that a small majority of the UK electorate voted to leave the EU, but will they come to regret their decision when the Brexit negotiations are complete?

I have never accepted the argument that it was possible to make an irrevocable decision to leave the EU when the electorate didn’t have all the facts. Sir Vince Cable argues that the referendum gave the Government a mandate to negotiate the terms of Brexit, but that the final decision should then be made by the electorate in a second referendum; I completely agree.

Unfortunately this is not going to happen, because the Tory Party is split from top to bottom over Europe, and the only way they can ever heal this division is by leaving the EU forever, no matter what this costs the country.

Alan Jordan, Middridge