The letter from Charles Kennedy and others (30 January) confuses our membership of the EU with our access to the single market. We could retain the latter without the former because:

1. We have 3m jobs exporting to the EU but it has 4.5m jobs exporting to us. We are its largest client. 2. The EU has free-trade agreements with 63 countries worldwide and another 63 on the way, so why not with us, on satisfactory terms? 3. Switzerland, not in the EU, exports three times more per capita to the EU than we do. 4. Only 9% of our GDP goes in trade with the EU (in deficit), 11% goes to the rest of the world (in surplus), and 80% stays in our domestic market. Yet Brussels overregulation strangles all 100% of our economy, and handicaps our exports to the countries of the future. Leaving the EU would create jobs, and restore our democracy.
Lord Pearson
Lord Stoddart
Lord Palmer
Lord Stevens
Lord Vinson
Lord Willoughby
The Earl of Liverpool
Douglas Carswell MP
John Cryer MP
Mark Reckless MP
Philip Davies MP
Austin Mitchell MP
Philip Hollobone MP
David Nuttall MP
Kate Hoey MP
Gordon Henderson MP
Kelvin Hopkins MP
Graham Stringer MP