Otherwise, we might as well hand Corbyn the keys to No 10

I reckon I speak for millions of people on all sides of the debate when I say that after almost three years of Brexit I am fit to burst with impatience. We cannot go on like this. We need to get on with it and to get it done.

This was meant to have been a week of national jubilation. It was meant to be the week when church bells were rung, coins struck, stamps issued and bonfires lit to send beacons of freedom from hilltop to hilltop.

There have been many times over the last 30 years when I have found myself nodding in passionate agreement with Michael Heseltine, who is, among his other virtues, my fellow ex-member for Henley on Thames.

Sometimes in politics you can face a dilemma so painful that the best thing can be to lay it out before your own constituency association, and ask for their advice. Last Friday I had the chance to do just that.

It is safe to say that for much of the past 46 years the EU has treated the political anxieties of the UK government with a condescension that borders on contempt.

We don't know what was going through the head of the young killer as he came up behind Jodie Chesney, 17, in a park in East London on Friday night.

What signal does it send out to our brave armed forces?

There is nothing extreme about standing by democracy. I don’t know about you, but I am getting sick of the constant suggestion that anyone who sticks up for Brexit must have far Right tendencies.

As the cheetah leant forwards with his rabbit-scented breath and his yellow eyes suddenly trained on me like fiery golden marbles, I wondered, as I prepared my response, exactly how much familiarity he would expect.

I suppose we all knew that John McDonnell was a believer in the myths of the old hard left. It is clear from his catastrophic economic policies that he has zero common sense.