Letters

Brexit and Englishness

Central issue

Fri Jul 29 2022 - 00:05

Sir, – Finn McRedmond tells us that Brexit was “an assertion about something to do with Britishness” (“Truss and Sunak prefer to talk about Beijing not Belfast”, Opinion & Analysis, July 28th). Since both the Scots and the Northern Irish both voted against, it could be argued that Brexit has more to do with Englishness.

To emphasise that fact we have to realise that 87 per cent of the vote for Brexit was in English constituencies.

It is, however, what happens to the Northern Ireland protocol when the new prime minister takes office that is the really important issue for Irish people. – Yours, etc,

ANTHONY LEAVY,

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Sutton,

Dublin 13.