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LETTER: How does Boris Johnson solve a problem like Brexit?

This Express & Star reader asks whether Boris Johnson can deliver the near impossible.

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Boris Johnson is in pole position to take over as Conservative Party leader and become the next Prime Minister

Boris Johnson or whoever attempts to negotiate Brexit will find the same intransigence that has defied his predecessors.

Boris Johnson remains the frontrunner in the Tory leadership contest.

We have been truly stitched up.

There is no benefit in Brussels budging from their current position; they almost luxuriate in this very pleasant comfort zone that keeps intact the federalising ambition of the founding fathers.

We are like little boys locked in detention.

It’s almost on a par with moving the entire Great Wall of China two miles south in gaining any decent concession.

Shamefully, it was a succession of past premiers who were responsible for entrapping us in the organisation. Maastricht 1992, Amsterdam 1997, Nice 2001 and Lisbon 2007 were treaties that sealed us deeper into the Brussels’ political catacombs.

Most of the PMs, especially Tony Blair, flattered by the rarefied air of Brussels’ upper circles and fearful of being the odd man out in such exalted company, surrendered our democratic heritage in those ever more constrictive treaties.

And now the only chance of escape from this manipulative, self-serving, Byzantine institution is to resolutely press for a no-deal conclusion.

But clearly it will take a very courageous, dexterous and economically capable politician to achieve this end in a way to minimize inevitable collateral damage.

We have, therefore, to live in hope that Boris Johnson can disprove the liberal establishment’s sceptical, scoffing conception of his ability and character and deliver the near impossible.

Alan Davis

Darlaston