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complicated for many reasons, including the UK’s need for free trade with our closest neighbours and the importance of an open border with Ireland.

These are real issues, despite having been brushed aside in the run up to the EU referendum.

It is ironic that Mr McMillan rails against unelected officials in Brussels whilst extolling WTO rules, given that the WTO is run by unelected bureaucrats, while the EU has a democratically elected parliament.

‘Simply’ cutting all ties with the EU would require the stockpiling of food and medication while being incredibly disruptive to trade.

Does Mr McMillan really want to risk health, wellbeing and jobs in this way?

We have gone from Boris Johnson’s talk of sunlit uplands before the referendum to David Davis assuring us that it won’t be a “Mad Max style world borrowed from dystopian fiction”.

That’s quite a lowering of expectations.

As David Davis said in 2012: “If a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy”.

Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU in 2016.

There is evidence that England and Wales would vote to remain now given the chance. It is time to support a people’s vote.

Sarah Axford, Chris Collins, Marianne Kaufmann, Eóghan MacMillan, Susannah Rae, Andrew Syme and Gillian Syme, Perth for Europe