Your article on Brexit and its consequences (Were Warnings Of 2016 Proved Right? - 2 Feb) quotes my MP Conor Burns, a keen Brexit supporter saying 'The referendum was always more about sovereignty and democratic control of government than it was about a short, medium or long term economic gain or economic disadvantage'.

Can this be true?

Have Brexiteers forgotten the headline Brexit message adorning the side of Boris Johnson's big red bus? It ran 'We send the EU £350 million a week. Let's fund the NHS instead. Vote Leave'.

At the time, that message was considered dodgy.

Now it seems Bexiteers are eager to forget the £350 million a week claim was their headline message.

It appears Brexiteers do not understand that while forgetting the lessons of history is a big mistake, rewriting our history is particularly unforgivable.

Dr Martin Rodger

Parkstone