Unionists are in a precarious state today because of one disastrous misjudgment after another over Brexit

(The editorial can be read by clicking on this link).

No doubt Boris Johnson deserves to take the criticism contained in the article but so too do many others.

From a unionist perspective the story of Brexit is not one of a single mistake in advocating the UK leave the EU, but was compounded by one disastrous misjudgment after another which leaves unionism in this precarious state today.

The last and perhaps most damaging of which was the DUP’s decision to sign up early last October to Boris Johnson’s proposal for a regulatory border in the Irish Sea.

This was a misjudgment of truly epic proportions and having agreed a regulatory border down the Irish Sea this decision is widely accepted as having opened the door to Boris Johnson’s even more far reaching customs border.

If we are to learn lessons for the future it is important that this catastrophic misjudgment is not airbrushed from history. Your newspaper has understandably dedicated considerable resources to the RHI scandal but in comparison there has been precious little attention given to how unionism has allowed itself to become permanently economically estranged from the rest of the UK.

I would have thought that as one of the few unambiguously unionist voices left in Northern Ireland the News Letter would be well placed to conduct such an investigation.

It can be easy to blame others for the position that unionism finds itself in today but at least some of the responsibility lies much closer to home.

James Wilson, Templepatrick