EVEN though 57 per cent of Stroud constituents voted Remain in the June 23, 2016 EU referendum, Neil Carmichael MP voted for Theresa May to trigger Article 50 last week.

He voted for hard Brexit, for leaving the single market with our biggest trading partner – which would be very bad for business and jobs.

Veteran conservative MP Ken Clarke, the sole Tory voting against triggering Article 50, said: “I have never seen anything so mad and chaotic as this... Apparently you follow the rabbit down the hole and you emerge in a wonderland where suddenly countries around the world are queueing up to give us trading advantages and access to their markets that previously we had never been able to achieve as part of the EU.”

With an exit cost of up to £60 billion, hard Brexit will make our economic problems worse, be profoundly unfair to the one million Brits living abroad in the rest of the EU as well as devastating to the three million EU citizens living here, bad for universities, for business and the pound.

As Neil Carmichael has chosen not to represent the strong Stroud 57 per cent Remain vote on Brexit, We need a Conservative/Lib Dem/Labour/Green alliance to campaign to remain in the single market.

Martin Large

Stroud