I FAIL to understand your comment (Echo, Mar 28) that Theresa May has made a “chaotic mess” of the Brexit negotiations.

The mess of which you speak is very definitely not of her making.

It is due to two factors. Firstly, the intransigence and arrogance of the Brussels negotiators, and secondly, the shameful disloyalty and barefaced self-seeking of her own MPs including her cabinet colleagues. The names of Michael Gove and Boris Johnson spring prominently to mind.

If, as now seems likely, the situation degenerates from farce into tragedy, with the outcome of a no-deal Brexit, the nation as a whole will suffer, especially the most vulnerable (although there is no danger of MPs going hungry, in case anyone was worried) but the blame can most definitely not be laid at Mrs May’s door.

She has done her level best but the utterly disgraceful way she has been treated on all sides has put her in an impossible position. She is between a rock and a hard place, and I have the utmost sympathy for her.

Tony Kelly, Crook