A referendum is not needed for the UK to reach a Bre-entry deal with Europe | Letters

With all due respect to Polly Toynbee, why do we assume that we would need another referendum to return to Europe (Shall we have another EU referendum? Maybe – but not yet, 19 October)? The last one didn’t work out too well. Asking the electorate to vote a simple yes or no on such a complex and multifaceted deal was never going to be the right approach; nor will it be to go back in.

Call it what you will – Brejoin, Bre-entry, Brehabilitation – it shouldn’t be an all-or-nothing deal. The one thing that Brexit has given us is the opportunity to cherrypick the elements of a relationship that are of mutual benefit to both parties. How about approaching it on a piecemeal basis, processing it through normal parliamentary procedure? No buses required.
Gary Jones
Wimbledon, London

Polly Toynbee says support for rejoining the EU “grows by the year, partly as older people drop off their perches”. I am still on my perch, but I want us to to rejoin the EU before I fall from it. Why a referendum? Let us just have a detailed manifesto from a trusted prime minister.
Michelle Ellison
Stourbridge, West Midlands