MAURICE VASSIE (Letters, April 25) seems to think everyone in favour of Brexit is a Thatcherite. This isn’t true.

Some of us on the left believe strongly in workers’ rights, environmental protection and animal welfare – we just don’t believe the EU is the best way to support them.

The EU is, and always has been, there to protect and subsidise big business and big bureaucracy.

It’s also anti-democratic, centralising, corrupt and inefficient.

The fact the CBI is so heavily in favour of the EU ought to be a warning for the left - so should what happened to the workers and the poor of Greece. This isn’t a simple issue of left and right, it’s about democracy and self-government.

James Richards, Scarcroft Road, York