RECENT announcements have nailed the myths that were peddled in support of Brexit prereferendum.

The government Brexit white paper confirmed: “While Parliament has remained sovereign throughout our membership of the EU.”

So clearly our sovereignty has never been lost.

There is recognition that the UK needs migrants to meet the needs of its economy and the NHS where 55,000 doctors and nurses from other EU countries prop up the UK’s medical skills shortage.

As the ex-minister Stephen Crabb has reminded us: “The problem is that, set against the popular expectation that Brexit means cutting immigration, there is nothing on the horizon to suggest that achieving any significant reduction is achievable or even desirable.”

Even UKIP and Vote Leave admit that the Red Bus £350 million a week for the NHS statement was both factually impossible and ‘never serious’.

And I haven’t even started on the complexities of the Scotland, Wales or particularly (for Warrington) the Irish implications.

The public was misled into voting for an undeliverable solution for the wrong problem.

Our MPs David Mowat and Helen Jones, like so many in last week’s parliamentary debate, both know that the Brexit promises of last summer are not deliverable and that in time a Brexit UK could be poorer, less influential, more divided and more isolated.

Yet they are too timid to spell this out to their constituents for fear some may not like what they hear.

They owe it to their constituents not to hide behind the fig leaf of ‘will of the people’. We were misled.

Yes there are problems in society but these are mainly of our own making and Brexit won’t solve these.

It’s time to be honest, have that public debate about the inevitable risks and consequences of leaving the EU and if maybe, yes, it’s time to Exit Brexit.

ROD KING Lymm