I READ the story – Jobs boost with new plants around world (Keighley News, February 23) – with delight.

It is a very welcome testament to the global future of our town and our country that Keighley engineering firm Teconnex should see its business booming since our Brexit vote.

I know a good majority – two-thirds if not more – of the good people of Keighley voted for our British Isles to leave the stranglehold of the European Union in the referendum last June.

The only ward in our parliamentary constituency with a remain majority was leafy, affluent Ilkley, where the negative economic consequences of EU unification presumably are largely not felt.

Leading up to the referendum, I was in our town centre most Saturdays (I also went to Bradford, Ilkley, Silsden and elsewhere) with the Vote Leave campaign making sure that people were informed about the huge advantages of political and economic independence for our country, making our own way in the world and forging our own trade deals, unhindered and uninhibited by the protectionism and the trade barriers of the EU bloc.

The vast majority who approached our stalls were already passionate about restoring self-determination and prosperity for their country but also for their town – our town – and refused the offer of Vote Leave campaign literature as they had already made their minds up.

I feel we in Keighley have grasped the nettle with our Brexit vote. We will have a bright future. We will not allow our town to be in any way embarrassed by poverty for much longer.

This is what self-determination is and it’s what we voted for.

It’s therefore wholly appropriate that going forward, Keighley’s own Teconnex will be bathed in the light of global success.

SAMUEL FLETCHER Vernon Court Keighley