I REFER to the letter by Joe Mulroy (HAS, Dec 15). He seems to think that the whole of Sedgefield voted to leave the EU. Can I give Mr Mulroy some facts.

The 2016 referendum was not done on a constituency basis but by county, in our case County Durham. The number of votes counted was 267,398 of which 113,521 voted to Remain. The Leave vote was 153,877 with 148 rejected. A majority in favour of Leave of 40,356 – this covered the whole of the county and not the constituency of Sedgefield.

Why should Phil Wilson stand down? He is my representative and I voted to Remain and still support the Remain vote. Nothing has changed, other than Theresa May trying to sell us a bad deal.

I will be campaigning with others to get a “People’s Vote” on this deal, which fails to deliver the Brexit Leave voters were promised.

Far from taking back control, we are transferring sovereignty away from our shores. We will need to give up our highly-influential seat at the table and become a passive rule taker rather a rule maker while paying £39bn for the privilege.

This is a bad deal. Mr Wilson has said he did not come into politics to make people poorer and he will not support a “no deal” Brexit, which will have a catastrophic impact on the North-East were such an option be presented to the House of Commons.

It is clear that Parliament is now in gridlock with the majority of MPs on both sides of the house opposing Theresa May’s deal.

It is now only right that that the British people should be asked again whether, now we know what leaving the EU looks like and the impact it is likely to have on our economy and our way of life, do we still want to go ahead with this.

So unlike Joe Mulroy I say, keep up the good work Phil, you are doing a sterling job.

Vince Crosby, Newton Aycliffe