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Following the resounding Labour vote that Polly Toynbee predicts will see off a hard Brexit, what are the chances of UK citizens in Northern Ireland being able to vote for the party that’s going to save them from a hard border (The roadblock hard Brexiteers can’t drive around: Ireland, 12 February)? More than 2,000 members and supporters of the Labour party here are increasingly frustrated by Labour’s refusal to stand candidates here.
Dugald McCullough
Newcastle, Co Down

• The Japanese ambassador’s warning about the impact of Brexit on Japan’s carmakers in the UK, especially in the north-east and the Midlands, is timely and alarming (Report, 9 February). But what does it say for British industry that this hugely important sector of the UK’s manufacturing is no longer UK-owned in the first place?
Jeremy Beecham
Labour, House of Lords

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