DURING this fascinating performance of self-destruction going on at Westminster, a few smaller but significant things may slip by unnoticed.
One that is perhaps worth noticing is the statement from Liz Truss – possibly a soon-to-be Tory leader? – that “the EU has a responsibility to solve the problem of the NI Protocol”.
Why? Was that agreement not negotiated and signed by the Westminster government and touted as a brilliant deal? If they got it wrong, tough! Who should be doing the crawling for concessions?
L McGregor
Falkirk
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IN her excellent article on the benefits that will accrue to Scotland with renewed membership of the EU, Joanna Cherry adds, "But for now, Scotland is cut off from the world’s largest single market in a UK that has the lowest GDP per head, worst economic productivity, highest poverty rates, and greatest inequality amongst its neighbours". Let’s put these figures into tables and publish them in The National, and put these tables into leaflets and put them through every letterbox in Scotland.
Nick Dekker
Cumbernauld
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