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(Mail Box, September 30) writes to criticise my earlier letter, which is his right, but he has no right to knowingly mislead your readers.

- PETER Brown

He queries where my figure of an annual balance of trade deficit with the EU of £80bn comes from.

He knows from previous correspondence that it comes from official figures published by the House of Commons library. The facts and figures are freely available online and refer to the time of the run-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum when we were still members of the EU.