Dick Lloyd, of Sherford, Kingsbridge, writes:

Boris Johnson, having achieved his main objective of unseating his old schoolfriend David Cameron, has not had the guts to even put his name forward to replace him as Prime Minister. Is this a new version of the Eton Wall Game? If so, it has had a disastrous effect on our hitherto tolerant nation.

Devastated as my family and I all are, let us try to think ­constructively.

Forty eight per cent of all ­voters represented educated, caring people drawn from ­several different walks of life – politics, education, finance, business and religion, as well as those doing manual and engineering jobs, and not forgetting the idealistic younger generation, who in my view have been hardest hit by the result.

So just how representative of the nation’s will is this result? Those who voted to remain foresaw the chaos we have ­landed ourselves in, but many who voted to leave clearly did not. Parliament, elected every five years, passes laws that govern our country. We do not conduct our affairs by plebiscite.

Therefore, it seems to me that, in accordance with our unwritten constitution, this very major decision should only be taken by an Act of Parliament, be it by the existing Government or one elected to replace it.

Is there any chance that our elected MPs will pay any ­attention to this opinion? I do not claim to be a constitutional lawyer, but I do recall from my studies at Oxford 60 years ago, when we discussed theoretical situations such as the House of Commons voting to abolish the House of Lords, many aspects of constitutional law are grey areas.