SIR – How refreshing to read Juliet Samuel’s article on Monday (“Instead of attacking mandarins, Brexiteers must make their case”, Comment, February 5) setting out what Brexit could be offering.
I also note that Brexiteer MPs have included the word “research” in the title of their new backbench organisation, the European Research Group. Can we look forward to some evidence for their views?
Those engaged in research will be aware that “expert” opinion is the weakest level of evidence. To paraphrase the Manchester Guardian editor C P Scott: opinion is free, but real facts are priceless.
John Green
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
SIR – I am grateful to Elizabeth Roberts of Carlisle (Letters, February 6) for her kind comments on my book, The Debatable Land.
However, I did not make the charge that “we are all village idiots” in Cumbria for voting to leave the EU. The book is a history, not a polemic,...