Letter: Draghi’s vision of the EU is why Brexiters wanted out

In his letter “EU needs to rediscover the vim and vigour of its 1992 project” (November 10) Richard Wright comes close to saying that things would be better if the EU would focus on being an effective single market rather than seeing itself as a nascent superstate and regulator to the world. He may well be right and if the EU had remained so focused then Britain would almost certainly still be a member. But judging by Mario Draghi’s comments last week this is the worst thing that could happen. What is needed, in Draghi’s view, is more integration, more political conformity and more regulations. This “more of the same” approach was of course Angela Merkel’s solution to every EU problem. It is no more likely to be effective this time than it has been in the past.

John Murray
Guildford, Surrey, UK