MADAM,

Given Monmouth MP David Davies’s very high public profile in the constituency, and his active and vigorous campaigning for the Leave campaign, can I say how proud I am of my home county that it rejected his proposals and voted Remain last Thursday?

Mr Davies never shies away from controversy, and you certainly can’t accuse him of not nailing his colours to the mast. It must have been quite a shock to him to discover that the majority of people of Monmouthshire don’t share his anti-EU views. Now of course, with his recent ‘statement to his constituents’ (which I am sure will be featured in this paper somewhere today), he is backtracking wildly. All is conciliation and reassurance and excuses.

During the campaign he claimed “Our immigration rules are being abused by people in sham marriages”. Now suddenly he’s talking about “hard-working migrants”. We can relax – he assures us he has friends, and even family, from inside the EU. Next thing this fanatical climate change denier will be telling us he has a solar panel!

I wonder why this sudden desire to justify himself to his constituents? Conciliation is not his usual style. I wonder if it is more the realisation that those reasonable, open minded Monmouthshire people who voted Remain, as well as those many young people in the county and constituency who genuinely see themselves as European, may well be voting in a General Election very soon, and Mr Davies’s strong anti EU views clearly don’t chime with theirs. Maybe he is not the kind of MP they want to represent them?

C’est possible, n’est ce pas?

Amanda Peters

(Carmarthen)