ON the BBC’s Sunday Politics show today the report on Brexit started off with a group singing “The hills are alive... with the sound of music” as the EU meeting was in Salzburg, the location for the film The Sound of Music. A friend of mine says they should be singing “How do you solve a problem like Theresa?”, but that is not the concern of the EU.

The UK avers it wants to leave the EU but keep the good bits, to the detriment of 26 other countries. Mrs May is stamping her feet with petulance, but the electorate is left with an appalling mess.

Jim Lynch
Edinburgh

ON returning from Salzburg Theresa May made a statement telling Europe not to expect her “to overturn the result of the referendum”, adding “nor will I break up my country”.

Is she referring to the break-up of England? Perhaps the north-east of England should be governed from Scotland, central and the north-west from Wales, the south from Cornwall and the north of Ireland from Dublin. At least then there wouldn’t be such a democratic deficit on these isles.

Paul Steinbett
Glasgow