The EU Repeal Bill is due to be debated in Parliament in September.

The bill is central to the government’s plan to exit the EU in 2019, because it releases Britain from more than 40 years of the supremacy of EU laws and it repeals the 1972 treaty that made Britain a member of the EU.

It is important that people realise that if the bill doesn’t pass then Britain will remain under the remit of EU law.

It is, therefore, very disappointing that there are reports emerging of MPs planning to oppose the bill. Any effort to oppose the bill - or to dilute it via a succession of wrecking amendments - would effectively prevent Britain leaving the EU and would fly in the face of the decision Britain made last year to leave the EU.

As chair of Change Britain and former Labour MP, Gisela Stuart, says: "The Repeal Bill is the first essential step in leaving the EU and will enable us to take back control of our laws in an orderly way. MPs must now do their democratic duty and vote for it."

MPs should work to make a success of Brexit, not try and frustrate last year’s referendum result. I would encourage those who feel as I do and believe in democracy, not as a Xenophobe but a patriot, to write to your MP, council leaders and the Prime Minister and ask them to support the bill and honour the will of the British people to leave the EU. After all it was we who gave Europe freedom and now we want it back.

Yours faithfully,

Peter Booth, Hale