• DAVID Cheeseman writes: “We must agree a deal to leave the EU, implement it and move on…” (A second referendum will not bring unity, May 10). With respect, there is no “must” about it.

At present there is no withdrawal deal, however sketchy, supported by a majority of MPs. The only proposition concerning Brexit which commands a majority is that “no deal” is a bad idea.

The only withdrawal deal approved by the rest of the EU has been heavily and repeatedly defeated in the Commons.

The EU’s negotiators, on the instructions of the European Council, have made it clear that they will not renegotiate the withdrawal agreement. They have shown previously that they mean what they say.

I may be proved wrong, but it seems to me that for these reasons Brexit cannot be delivered and that MPs who are not members of the European Research Group know it.

Will they have the courage to tell Leave voters that they voted for the impossible, force a revocation of the Article 50 letter, and, in Mr Cheeseman’s words, move on to deal with the major issues facing the UK?

STEPHEN HORNE
Romilly Road, N4