Bernard Jenkin is Chairman of the Public Administration Select Committee and MP for Harwich.
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It would leave EU judges in authority, obstruct new trading opportunities, and compel us to continue as a major financial contributor to Brussels. It is a futile distraction.
Those continuing the Remain campaign represent a minority. The Prime Minister understands that the people have spoken, and that now there is no turning back.
There is plenty of reason to check that the Government’s ones have been giving sound legal advice to ministers. Too often, it has been wrong.
The guts of this Bill is about converting EU law, as it applies in the UK, into statute law as neatly as possible, creating the minimum of disruption. That is all.
There are slender means for discussion, coaching and mentoring us about the particular dangers and pressures of public life.
A change in attitudes and atmosphere at CCHQ is the vital foundation for any lasting and effective reform.
And much of this material is propaganda – not fact.
Instructions given to civil servants contravene the Cabinet Manual, the Ministerial Code, the European Referendum Act 2015 and the precedent from 1975.
We will not be “bombing Syria”, but attacking carefully identified terrorist targets in the worst example of an “ungoverned space” that the modern world has seen.
The Prime Minister was demanding “proper full-on treaty change”. Now we are told that we may have to accept a mere promise of it.
The two battered main parties would do well to speak honestly about the challenges and costs we face.
The Cabinet Secretary told my committee that contingency planning was actually banned by the Government.