YOUR headline letter ‘EU is Eroding our Freedom’ (April 16) criticises me for incoherence and for failing to provide tangible facts within my letter (April 14) identifying errors and misinformation peddled by MP Conor Burns.

Little of Mr Burns’ argument went unaddressed.

The only incoherence or absence was in ignoring Mr Burns’ statement that "only six per cent of UK companies export to the EU," a statement which is surely misinformation.

The six per cent figure is not of itself greatly wrong. About 70,000 or five per cent of UK companies export goods to the EU.

The number of firms exporting services is less easy to determine, so a total of seven per cent or 10 per cent could be argued.

But where Mr Burns pedals misinformation is his inference that this figure shows our EU exports are of little consequence. He is not alone in such aberrant messaging.

Your prolific correspondent Mike Fry argues (April 14) that our EU exports are "declining sharply". Strange then that our EU exports continue to comprise 14 per cent of our economy.

It is big companies that mostly export. Half of the UK’s workers are employed by the largest two per cent of companies.

Mr Burns says "only six per cent of UK companies export to the EU", but Mr Burns fails to mention that that tiny six per cent comprises more than half our total economy.

I thus brand his statement misinformation.

Dr Martin Rodger

Bloxworth Road, Poole