Letters: Remainers should respect their fellow voters and accept Brexit

anti-Brexit demonstrator waves an EU flag
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SIR – Simon Heffer is right: Remainers need to get over the fact that they lost the referendum.

Despite the arch Europhiles playing every card in the pack to thwart the result, a majority – as shown in recent polls – remains in favour of Brexit.

So desperate have the likes of Tony Blair and Nick Clegg become that, every time their latest gloomy forecast is proved false, another excuse for a second referendum raises its head.

It is insulting for these so-called elites to imply that Leavers did not understand what they were voting for. The majority voted to leave in order to regain our sovereignty, to make our own laws in Parliament and to control our borders. It’s as simple as that.

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