An open letter to MP?Sarah Wollaston:

You wrote to me on July 6, 2016, stating that “I will be respecting the outcome of the result on the referendum”.

This was some reassurance and was in line with the £9.3m booklet sent to all households by David Cameron in which he stated that the forthcoming referendum was, “....A once in a generation decision... The Government will implement what you decide”.

Your vote against the EU Withdrawal Bill on November 13 has undermined Theresa May’s standing, risked bringing the Government and your party down, and has emboldened our ‘partners’ in Brussels to make negotiations as difficult as they can.

I assume that you do not understand how much damage you have done to the confidence and trust that constituents used to place in their MP.

Many members of the local UKIP branch even ‘lent’ you their vote in the general election earlier this year so that Theresa May would have the majority she needed to deliver ‘Brexit means Brexit’. You should remember that you work for us.

The electorate have given their decision – we want to take back control from the EU and regain our independence. That must be delivered. It is not your right to belittle your party and leader for your own personal ends.

Although the count was announced on a local authority area (South Hams), the Totnes constituency voted 54 per cent for Leave.

The iconic UK fishing port of Brixham, the largest town in the Totnes constituency, was counted under the Torbay voting area and polled 63.2 per cent for Leave, the highest in the south west.

It is no surprise that at a UKIP action morning there on November 25 your constituents were queuing up to sign a letter to the Prime Minister calling for the UK to be out of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy on March 30, 2019, two years after Article 50 was triggered.

I know from your website that you ‘came into politics to campaign on health’, and also that you changed from backing the Leave campaign to the Remain campaign on the strength of how the use of money saved from EU membership could be used by the NHS.

If it is impossible for you to reflect and honour your constituents’ wishes, you should consider transferring your allegiance to a party and a constituency more in line with your beliefs.

Ceri Jayes

Chairman

Totnes branch UKIP