I watched the Prime Minister’s speech on Tuesday with growing incredulity.

In a shameful volte-face, she placed the possibility of remaining in a customs union and a second referendum on the table. Why? To win Labour votes, of course, thereby securing her legacy by passing this dreadful Withdrawal Bill.

There were reassurances to the DUP, too, but, whatever we do, EU law trumps ours.

This must be the final fling of the dice for Mrs May and, as I write, her precarious position is further undermined with the resignation of Cabinet minister Andrea Leadsom.

In a devastating resignation letter, she explains that, as Leader of the House, she could not place the withdrawal legislation in front of MPs when she felt it did not deliver Brexit.

And, to me, this is the key issue.

I clashed with the Prime Minister during her Statement on Wednesday when she wrongly claimed to my colleague Sir John Redwood that she’d been unable to take us out of the EU on March 29 because MPs wouldn’t let her. That is not the case. Mrs May had the legal, moral and political authority to take us out of the EU and singularly failed to do so, and, frankly, was never going to.

Angry? Yes, I’m furious. I did vote Conservative yesterday, as I’m a sitting Conservative MP, but I more than understand and sympathize with the anger and frustration that have driven countless hundreds of thousands into Mr Farage’s camp.

We voted to leave the EU and the only way we are going to solve this toxic issue is to do so.

That vote in June 2016 must be honoured if we are to safeguard trust in our democracy and move on.