WITHAM MP Priti Patel must be feeling totally humiliated.

As Home Secretary of the selfstyled party of law and order, she is confronted by a Prime Minister who is doing his best to rubbish the unanimous verdict of the highest court in the land, just because it doesn’t suit him.

He is also trying to circumvent the Benn Act, which aims to prevent a no-deal exit from the EU.

And then there are all those falsehoods which he utters.

Here is just one example: he claims that his aim is to “get Brexit done”.

What does this actually mean? If we leave the EU with a deal, then we can begin negotiations on a trade deal on a more-or-less equal footing, with a transition period and in an atmosphere of mutual respect.

If the UK leaves without a deal, there will be no transition period.

The questions of EU citizens’ rights, the financial settlement and the Irish border will need to be resolved before trade negotiations can begin; and the atmosphere will have been poisoned by those in the Tory party and in the Tory media who falsely blame the EU for the failure of an agreement which was accepted by both sides, including the then British Prime Minister.

Boris Johnson is taking the British people for fools.

Far from “getting Brexit done”, he will be condemning us to years of rancorous negotiations in which the UK will be at a disadvantage from the start.

The sooner he resigns and makes way for a Labour Government, the better.

David Martin Bridge Street, Witham