Some Remainers would love us to get bogged down, but a rapid and clean break with the EU is the only next step which is in the national interest.
It offers Britain a unique position of advantage within the EU.
If MPs tried to cheat the voters, they would risk a populist backlash. To defy the people would be to put their seats at risk.
We would be better off out, in terms of jobs, wages and growth – and the cost of leaving would be smaller than its benefits.
There is no prospect for reform unless Britain votes to leave and forces a new agenda on Europe’s elites.
Plus: Sorting out energy. Protection from Putin. And: furthering the single market.
As the ground campaign to stay in the EU launches, the International Development Secretary sets out her own personal case for backing it.
Let’s strengthen Parliamentary scrutiny, beef up our diplomacy, stop gold-plating directives – and regain our mojo.
Do people find sovereignty in a Parliament they regrettably take little interest in – or in actual power and the pound in their pocket: their job; their standard of living?
The mythical post-Brexit ideal of unfettered access to the Single Market most closely resembles deals only open to less developed countries.
It is a grand delusion that, right after walking out of the EU, our former partners would be bound to give us a better deal than we have now, with none of the cost.
“A leap in the dark instead in an uncertain world – why take the risk?”
I will also work to make sure that when we have the result, when the people of this country have decided its future, that we still have a united Party.
“I will be campaigning with all my heart and soul to persuade the British people to remain in the reformed European Union that we have secured today.”
Advice to the Government’s transitional team.