Theresa May claims Jeremy Corbyn would be “naked in the debating chamber” (May intensifies personal attack, 31 May). Thus our prime minister reveals her own appalling negotiating strategy. For “naked” is good. Corbyn would sit at the table stripped of preconceptions, all outcomes possible, setting the right tone for open and honest discussion. May would have none of Corbyn’s naked flexibility, being encumbered by her full-body armour: British bull-doggedness as her breastplate, red lines her chain mail, electoral mandate her battleaxe. As my representative in Brexit negotiations, I would champion any day a Greek wrestler, noble in his nakedness, over a medieval knight in her armoured arrogance.
Geoff Anderson
Sheffield
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