THE Echo’s chief Brexit reporter, Chris Moncrieff, seems now to realise the truth that top Tories are simply in all this Brexit discussion with only self interest as the aim (Echo, Sept 18).

We are a country in need of leadership and ideas.

Boris Johnson, who has not got an original thought in his head, is now happy to see us fail in the negotiations so that he can then step in and save the day.

If he fails, that role will fall to Michael Gove or Jacob Rees Mogg.

I feel as Fraser in Dads Army would say: “We are doomed.”

Martin Flanagan, Catterick Garrison