Reader's letter: “We need to trade customs union with the EU.”

The petition is not the name of the President of the United States. However, it notes the need to resist “an ever-increasingly dangerous geopolitical situation” and the “threat and demands of dictators and Demagog.”

You can view and sign the petition at -bit.ly/customsunion. Another Parliamentary petition – asking us to rejoin the European Union as soon as possible – was debated by lawmakers last month. If you want to secure 100,000 signatures, this new one might be the same.

I stated in a recent letter that the last one was “good argument… Most backbench MPs clearly know the many ways Brexit hurts the UK” (T&A Letters, March 28).

But it could be a few years and another referendum, as EU membership is for the UK. Commenting on Trump's tariffs over the weekend, Kielstama said, “The world we know is that old assumptions are no longer obvious.”

It should be sufficient incentive for the Prime Minister to urgently rethink the “red line” of Labour's Brexit, including blocking discussions on union agreements. That means there are fewer tariffs and fewer red tape for UK businesses that want to trade with the huge European market at our gateway.

Doing more business on the other side of the UK channel is one way to offset transatlantic trade in less ways. Non-members such as Türkiye have already signed customs union agreements with the EU. We need it too.

Peter Brown, Cleckheaton