PHILIP Munro (Messenger, August 11) is premature in deciding that departure from the EU will produce a future that is very, very bright.

He may be correct, but so far, although share prices may have risen, the pound has dropped considerably against other currencies (which is part of the explanation for shares of global companies to go up) and companies are very hesitant about future plans and rather pessimistic about the future while this great uncertainty continues.

What is amazing is that no-one knows what sort of future relationship the UK is going to have with the EU, including supporters of Brexit who seem not to have thought it out.

Might it be like Norway, that accepts EU rules and free entry of labour while having no say in EU decisions? Or might it be like Canada, that has a rather distant relationship with none of the trade advantages of the single market? Or will it be something in between? Meanwhile, we have perhaps more than two years of uncertainty.

Although I voted to stay (partly because a relatively small country like Britain has very little power in combating the global reach of large companies, with their elaborate tax avoidance schemes), I recognise that the EU is far from perfect. But I would have liked to see a future UK government, led by someone with Jeremy Corbyn’s views, trying to get it to reform instead of us just walking away.

Martin Wright Sale