Mansfield MP confident the Government will deliver the best Brexit deal for the town

You may have seen last week that Brexit was back in the House of Commons, as MPs debated the changes that the House of Lords has tried to impose on the Bill.

This is the EU Withdrawal Bill that sets out how the UK will leave.

And some of the recommendations from the Lords and other parties were, to me, totally unacceptable.

The Government’s stance is simple.

Prime Minister Theresa May consistently has laid out that she wants the UK to take control of its borders, its money and its laws.

That means leaving all of the institutions of the EU and respecting the result of the Referendum.

That’s what the Bill laid out, with a fixed leaving date of March 29 next year.

The Lords put forward changes, wanted to remove the leaving date, and to give Parliament a vote on the final deal so it could choose to reject it.

Meanwhile the Liberal Democrats suggested Britain should have another Referendum.

Fortunately, the Government won these votes and none of these changes were successful.

Labour tried to get the UK to stay within some of the EU’s bodies, like the Single Market and the Customs Union, by putting forward various votes on these issues.

In my contribution to the debate I made the point that both of these options would mean that Britain couldn’t control its own policy on immigration, that it wouldn’t have full control of its own law making, and that it would still have to pay in to the EU Budget – so these options were simply not acceptable.

Staying in the Single Market and Customs Union, would mean Britain had not really left.

Again, the Government defeated these Labour amendments and the county can move forward with Brexit still intact.

At every hurdle, theis Government is delivering on what it promised and making good progress.

And I’m increasingly optimistic that this Government will deliver the kind of Brexit Mansfield voted for.