Mark Peaker
SIR – What looked like the eternally insoluble problem of the Irish border was finally sorted out due in part to having “outside” impartial help. Let the EU and UK admit to needing such a pair of hands before it is too late.
Meg Hall
SIR – Even now, it would be a good idea to try to postpone Brexit, while we remain in the transition stage.
Britain is facing at least two much more urgent issues: the large number of empty shops in what used to be flourishing high streets and the coronavirus. The virus is a worldwide problem, which calls for international co-operation. It cannot be solved if every nation adopts its own solution.