Labour’s Nick Thomas-Symonds, Britain’s chief EU negotiator, mocks those who want a “proper Brexit” (Opinion, February 3). Not surprisingly he is trying to distract attention from his own actions, because what he is doing is not improving but gradually reversing Brexit.
Far from being a new trade deal, his “reset” with the EU constitutes the partial re-entry to the EU’s single market, in defiance of his own party’s manifesto, applying EU laws without any say in them, and paying for the privilege too — a point that goes oddly unmentioned in his guest column.
The government’s efforts would be better expended on using the benefits of British national independence, while we still have it, to deregulate and improve the business environment here in the UK. Such action would do far more to help the benighted British economy than surreptitiously binding ourselves once more, bit by bit, to the slow-growth EU.
Lord (David) Frost
House of Lords, London SW1, UK