LETTERS: Unfair trade war against the UK
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: It is a great shame that after over 23 years of "awkward" - at times tempestuous - relations with the EU, the British government should not have learnt its lesson. John Major's "declaration of war" on the other EU countries shows that far from wanting to put Britain "at the heart of Europe", the Prime Minister is just as intent on isolating Britain as his predecessor was.
Already his actions have been compared to Margaret Thatcher's Falklands war.
However, if the party was to look beyond its own political interests for one moment, it would see that on a long term basis, the present action is likely to do irrevocable damage to our relationship with the European Union, and threaten our future prospects within it.
ROSALIND GILL
Radlett,
Hertfordshire
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