Email from Jeremy Hunt in response to mine, telling him I signed the petition:
Thank you for writing about your concerns about the Brexit process.
In many ways the debate in parliament reflects the divisions in the country but the situation is exacerbated because as I may have emailed you previously no party has a majority in parliament which means that all sides in the debate (strong Remainers worried about no deal, strong Brexiteers worried about this deal, the DUP and the Labour Party) are exploiting the fragility of the government’s majority to maximise their leverage – but the penny seems to be dropping finally that unless we come together as a parliament and as a country the outcome will be far worse for all of us.
Most people – and most of my constituents – respect the referendum result and want to get on with but also want to avoid the potential disruption of no deal. With the new delay agreed by the EU last week, that is within our grasp within the next three weeks. So I strongly believe we must see the bigger picture and vote for the deal we have - and make sure we deliver on our democratic duty to respect a referendum that parliament itself chose to allow.
That is what I will be working hard to achieve both as foreign secretary and as your MP.
Thank you again for writing.
It sounds like they spent the afternoon getting their stories straight...
Whoever wrote it needs to give some urgent attention to their punctuation and grammar. Lowly little me can get away with slips, but the Foreign Sec. has a reputation to uphold 