Re: MP Jackie Doyle-Price’s article “We will always defend British values” (Gazette Opinion, March 30) While I, and I’m sure the entire readership, whole heartedly endorse Ms Doyle-Price’s sentiments concerning the brave police officer Keith Palmer and send our condolence’s to his family, I do find it hard to believe, and a shame, that an officer so close to Parliament was unarmed and so vulnerable.

I was proud to see that once more the great British public rose to the occasion and did what they could for the injured.

However, In view of Ms Doyle-Price’s membership of the Conservative party, the party that signed us up to what has evolved into the EU, a member of the Cameron/Osborne “Project Fear” Government, with her previous voting record in Brussels, and the fact that she voted against the referendum, I am amazed at her hypocrisy in the remainder of the article.

She actually says “defend British values” followed by “this is the land of hope and glory, mother of the free” and, to cap it all, “the Mother of Parliaments”. A Mother of Parliaments that successive UK governments have systematically subjugated to what can only be described as an “unelected commission“ in Brussels. A Mother of Parliaments that was previously envied and copied around the world.

The Tories, aided and abetted by Labour, have been party to the creation of a European Union, from what was supposedly a Common Market - a great deception! An EU which is hell bent on creating a Federal United States of Europe - already, with the help of our own MPs, they are in the process of reducing Great Britain to a region or state.

However, the great British people with the referendum have hopefully stopped this in its tracks, although I fear Mrs May, also a member of that same Government, is already showing signs of backsliding.

The dictatorial, and often aggressive statements and ridiculous demands from Brussels since the referendum show without doubt the British people made the right decision.

I note the MP’s article is headed “Jackie Doyle-Price, MP for Thurrock” - however, in the letters section in the same edition she castigates a certain Mr Rob Groves with the statement “I am not the Member of Parliament for Stanford-le-Hope.” Perhaps we should be grateful for that!

DAVID A MORRISH

Stanford-le-Hope