YP Letters: Mary Creagh, the sole Yorkshire MP to go against will of her electorate over Brexit

Wakefield MP Mary Creagh is being challenged to justify her opposition to the tabling of Brexit's Article 50.

THE majority of Labour MPs, who campaigned for Remain, took the brave and pragmatic decision to back the democratic result and vote for the Article 50 Bill. They should be applauded for it.

One fantastic speech during the debate by the Labour MP for Ilford North, Wes Streeting, summed up their position: “At a time when liberal democracy feels so fragile and precious, it is hard to overstate the damage that this Parliament would inflict on our democracy were we to reject the outcome of a referendum in which 33.5 million people voted.”

Only one Yorkshire MP opposed the Article 50 Bill, Wakefield MP Mary Creagh.

Even Greg Mullholland, Liberal Democrat MP for Leeds North West, abstained. Mary Creagh voted against the demand of her Wakefield constituents. She represents the cabal of aloof, technocratic, machine politicians which was heartily rejected by the Brexit vote.

She has shown contempt for her constituents and more importantly for the primacy of democratic decision-making.

Sovereignty lies with the people. We lend them our power to represent us.

When it is abused, the politician should pay the price. Ms Creagh claims that she is following her conscience, but don’t be surprised if you see her following Tristram Hunt and other Labour MPs into a well-paid corporate or lobbying job.

She clearly doesn’t want to represent the people of Wakefield.

From: Amjad Bashir, Conservative MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber.

TOM Richmond is right to take a more sanguine view of Britain’s relationship with the new US President Donald Trump (The Yorkshire Post, January 30).

By maintaining good relations with Trump, Prime Minister Theresa May is likely to do far better than the protestors with regard to influencing – and changing – his misguided views.

Britain must not and cannot cut its ties with its closest ally, the US. And, therefore, we have to deal with President Trump. He is the leader of the world’s biggest superpower. We have to do business with him, we have to have a dialogue with him.

As Mr Richmond points out, Britain must take on the role of critical friend. We have already seen Mrs May’s potential to influence his thinking: the President’s apparent change of tone with regard to Nato, for instance. I believe in the long term President Trump will greatly value Mrs May’s advice and statesmanship.