The Conservatives said, when Blair refused to give us a referendum on Europe, that they would have done if they had been in power.

Now he has dismissed calls from his own party to give a referendum on whether we should come out of the EU. Why? Because he knows that the country would give a big ‘no’ to staying in.

This is because we need to have our own rule back, be able to deport any foreign nationals who break British law, run British prisons as we feel fit, and get rid of the Court of Human Rights.

MR P. HOWARD Brome Place Barton Oxford