NO DEAL

IN THE past 24 hours, a false choice has been put forward to us; accept a flawed and inadequate deal or stare out into the unknown. That is nonsense.

The agreement put forward yesterday is unacceptable and I cannot vote for it. It fails on so many levels because it starts from a single, wretched premise — that Britain cannot make its own way in the world. This is more than a failure of technical detail; it is a failure of negotiation, a failure of ambition and a failure of leadership.

On page after page last night, the horror of what we have agreed became painfully obvious. The European Court of Justice remains substantially involved in our legal system. We outsource a sovereign decision about whether we

On page after page last night, the horror of what we have agreed became painfully obvious