ISN’T it strange how quite suddenly the Conservatives have changed their tune about the EU?

Mr Osborne, only a month ago, was warning us that we’d be £4,300 a year worse off if we are out of the EU, our pensions would collapse, no-one would want to trade with us and so on.

Now he is telling us that we have one of the strongest economies in the world and that we are renewing ties and friendships all over the globe, and new trade deals are coming with a stock market that is higher than it has been in months and much more good news.

Mrs May, our new prime minister who, only a few weeks ago, was telling us there was no way we could manage outside the EU, is now telling us we are bound for greatness as a free, independent nation.

Jacob Rees-Mogg is putting the credit for all this at the door of David Cameron, the man who only weeks ago was telling us more stories of doom and disaster than Jackanory if we left the EU.

Not one of the three of them has given a word of recognition or praise to Ukip, the real architects of this referendum success. It is, apparently, all due to these leading Conservative people who “never really liked the EU” and are saying now they never doubted we would be successful outside.

Strange that only weeks ago these same Tory leaders were saying we could not survive without the EU and that Brexit was leading us to disaster.

Now that has changed and, they claim, we have the Tories to thank for their enlightened leadership in getting us out of the EU.

Any person or party which can turn its coat that quickly never really believes in its own message and can turn their coat back again just as quickly.

By turning their back so fast, first on our true friends in the Commonwealth in 1973 by taking us into the EU, and now our “friends in Europe” by leading us out, the Tories have shown their turncoat credentials twice. Can they really be trusted to keep their word?

I am sure your readers are aware that the political elite have proved beyond doubt that the need for Ukip has never been stronger than it will be over the next few months and years in order to ensure that these Conservatives actually keep their word.

May I take this opportunity to thank the 34,617 electors who supported UKIP by voting to leave the EU in this Devizes Constituency.

TONY MOLLAND, Former chairman, Devizes Constituency UKIP , Association