I AGREE with Janet Kitchen-Porter’s comment (Letters, February 7) regarding the higher Remain vote in York: that four per cent is hardly a landslide winning result.

Likewise David Rhodes (Letters, February 7) says of the 58 per cent who voted to remain: this 58 per cent is not a true figure.

It reflects a percentage of those people who voted, ignoring the fact that less than 100 per cent of those able to to vote did so.

Both writers are arguing that, given the above facts, Rachael Maskell should not have voted against the Brexit bill on the basis that York voted to remain in the EU.

Nigel Farage made the same point in an interview with the Mirror in May in which he said: “In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way.”

Theresa May and others have taken a 52-48 referendum result as carte blanche toward a hard Brexit.

Imagine a 52-48 Remain win. How many Leave voters would consider that a mandate for a hard Remain, eg joining the Eurozone and signing up to the Schengen Agreement?

Something to think about. The debate continues - surely that is the sign of a healthy democracy.

Mary Kendall, Blake Court, Wheldrake, York