ON THE subject of the recent High Court ruling, Alan Chedzoy says (Your Say, Nov 22) that it “would be absurd to think that our elected representatives should not be consulted...”.

But our elected representatives chose, by a large majority, to surrender the decision as to whether or not to leave the EU to a referendum.

I’m sure they thought, as I’m sure David Cameron, Alan Chedzoy and I thought, that the people would vote to remain; but they didn’t. Isn’t it, rather, absurd subsequently to require Parliament to intervene on a subject that they were happy to relinquish?

I suspect that Alan Chedzoy only wants Parliament to be able to put its oar in because he wants the people’s decision to be reversed; his plea for a second referendum, last resort of the Remoaners, reinforces my suspicion.

If Parliament really cared, it could take action on its own account. In the last analysis, a vote of no confidence in the government should do it. Or perhaps the will to thwart the clear wish of the people is not there.

Tony Fisher Weymouth