YES, Brexit was chosen by just over half the referendum voters (rather less than half in Tatton) but what Brexit means is anybody’s guess.

Hard or soft? National sovereignty? Control of borders?

Cutting new immigration? Sending existing immigrants home? Staying in the single market like Norway, or outside it like Canada?

People voted for a whole raft of goals under the general heading of ‘Brexit’.

Neither I, nor MPs, nor – especially – your Ukip correspondents have the right to say ‘what the people voted for’ and insist on their interpretation being implemented.

Partly because nobody knows and partly because much of it will not be attainable.

Various Leave campaigners promised the voters the impossible – giving the £350 million EU subscription to the NHS is just one example.

Restricting travel from EU countries to the UK, while we continue freely to pop over to Spain for our holidays is another.

As the details of the post Brexit settlement with the EU and the rest of the world emerge and make this clear, Ukip and their friends will surely blame everybody but themselves that the deal negotiated is not the one their wishful thinking assumed would happen.

At that point, when we know what’s actually on the table, it would make sense for the people - through another referendum or through parliament - to decide if this is a price worth paying. It’s not undemocratic say so.

Perhaps the terms will not be too harsh.

Perhaps the public will decide that the cost may be high but it’s worth it.

Or perhaps (my own preference) they will decide that the best thing is to stay.

But we should be given a say.

Roger Barlow Knutsford Liberal Democrats