DAVE Williams’ letter (Warrington Guardian, April 14) deals with three things.

First, how the problems of the steel industry have been allegedly exploited by the Brexit campaign to leave the EU.

However it is a very rule of the EU which could stop cheap Chinese steel coming into the UK – namely tariffs.

The USA has imposed a 67 per cent tariff on cheap Chinese steel thus protecting its steel producers.

We can’t do this as EU rules do not allow it.

It could be argued that the Port Talbot steel workers are the ones to be exploited by the EU bureaucracy and rules.

Second, Mr Williams’ question about my immigration comments being net or gross is simply answered. They were net figures (that is numbers entering the UK minus numbers exiting the UK).

If Mr Williams prefers, another way of looking at immigration into the UK (Office of National Statistics figures) – they forecast that the UK’s population could hit nearly 80 million within 25 years as a result of continued net migration.

As mentioned in my letter of April 7 the Government is delaying a report about the true net immigration figures until after the referendum on June 23.

Could Mr Williams give a clue why this is?

A ‘cover up’ relating to the above concerns National Offer Day, on April 18, when parents found out if their children had a primary school place of their choice.

On that day, an estimated 80,000 children nationally missed out on their first choice.

A baby boom, fuelled by net immigration, has left many local authorities at breaking point.

Third, Mr Williams asks that the ‘vast numbers of UK citizens working in the EU should be considered’.

They are mainly skilled workers, property owners, pensioners.

Their incomes are very helpful to the local economies and are highly valued.

Does he think that the EU countries would sacrifice this?

JAMES ASHINGTON Lymm