AS OUR MP, Stephen Doughty, is right to believe that Britain and Wales are safer, stronger and better off in Europe, he and his fellow Labour MPs need to do more to counteract the arguments of those such as work and pensions minister, Priti Patel, who claim EU membership stifles the UK’s ability to protect the steel industry.

when They must, or at the very least ought, to know that the UK opposed EU proposals to protect our steel from dumping from China in case it might cause China to pull out of Hinkley Point C nuclear power station –, which is already an enormous white elephant.

Priti Patel plays to the gallery of her Essex constituency in blaming immigration for this government’s dire failure to fund local government, to build council houses and provide the social care needed to alleviate the pressure on hospital beds of an ageing population.; and

She also views Wales as a drag on the public purse due to the higher cost of benefits per head of population resulting from higher levels of poverty and ill health, compared with the more prosperous south east of England.

As a minister Ms Patel must take her share of responsibility for this government’s dire failure to adequately tax the profits of hi-tech firms, like Google. That should have brought in enough revenue to pay for a first class health service, schools and social housing instead of further impoverishing the poorest through the bedroom tax, which that has all but destroyed some of our poorest communities.

As for fellow 'Brexiter', Boris Johnson, in his claim that the EU and Hitler have the same aim, he should take a good look in the mirror and recollect that Hitler began his rise to power as a demagogue who made citizens of his own society the scapegoats for his nation’s decline.

Artificial intelligence should usher in a new renaissance of increased leisure and learning opportunities but this inexcusable failure to fairly share the profits has served to further weaken the power of labour versus capital, even before this government set out to hamstring the trade unions and organised labour generally.

Teaching all children to write code will not put the genie of AI back in the bottle, nor should we wish to do so, but we must have a government with the political will to control global capitalism so that it is harnessed to enrich all our lives, not just those of the few at the top who are left free of taxes to exploit the rest of us.

Margaret Phelps

Raisdale Gardens

Penarth