WHEN Iain Macwhirter referred to the Labour Party being at “sixes and sevens” over Brexit ("We must be give the chance to dump this cliff-edge Brexit", The Herald, June 13) I wonder whether he had in mind a return to the 1960s?

This was the period when the relationship between the Inner Six of the European Community (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands and West Germany) and the Outer Seven of the European Free Trade Association (Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom) was described – rather derisively – in exactly those terms.

It was a confused time then, and it will surely be more so with any attempt to resurrect the arrangement.

Richard Cherry,

Ness Cottage, Fortrose.