Dear Editor

Derek Haselden professes not to know my views on Brexit, and suggests I am in favour of “no deal”.

Perhaps he needs to take out a subscription to the Gazette? After all, in the past few weeks alone I have set out my views on Brexit in two full columns and a letter in your excellent newspaper. 

Here’s a sample:  “A no-deal Brexit would almost certainly be extremely painful in the short term.  But the possibility of no-deal has very usefully focused minds both at home and in the EU.  As I have witnessed close up in the area of transport, it is highly unlikely that we would have seen the rapid recent improvement in Brexit preparations on the other side of the Channel without it.” That remains true.

Of course I also comment on the issues. Gazette readers would expect no less.

Jesse Norman

MP for Hereford and

South Herefordshire