Sir,
I am astonished at the downbeat response from many industries about the decision to leave the EU. They appear to have been deliberately misinformed by the government – and to have swallowed it.
Around threequarters of EU legislation is geared to nudging us ever nearer to the single European state – a country called Europe. That is the main purpose of the EU – ‘ever closer union’. The remaining 25 per cent relates to trade regulation of the European single market, the only part of the EU project in which industry is interested.