1 February 2021 • 12:01am
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, is facing calls to resign after threatening to impose a hard vaccine border on the island of Ireland
Credit: KENZO TRIBOUILLARD /AFP
SIR – I was never a committed Brexiteer, but after much soul searching I voted Leave in the referendum as I felt that, on balance, Britain’s interests were best served as an independent nation.
I was bitterly disappointed to learn that I could no longer take a pork pie to treat my son and grandchildren when next we are able to visit them in Finland and began to wonder if I had made the wrong decision.