IN 2016, a pre-legislative referendum was held to ask the UK if they wanted to leave or remain in the EU. The answer was leave and MPs don’t even know what the process to withdraw is. Or do they?

What got us into this will get us out. In order to meet our constitutional requirements, Theresa May should put the Great Repeal Bill forward to repeal the 1972 European Communities Act which will come into force on the same date as the signing of a new treaty with the EU.

This would allow the Government to notify the European Council of its intention to withdraw and to trigger Article 50 using its Crown (or democratically elected government) prerogative.

No need for court cases or parliamentary motions designed to interfere with international matters. Those MPs who represent “leave” constituencies and who vote against the Bill will be joining Zac Goldsmith in the political suicide squad.

I don’t think we have access to the single market without freedom of movement as the chances of 27 EU states, four EFTA countries and Wallonia signing three treaties agreeing to UK access are as slim as Mrs May using this letter as Government policy.

There is no hard or soft Brexit, just leaving the EU and becoming independent.

The EU must give us a ‘prosperous’ deal or it would breach Article 8 of the Lisbon Treaty. Yes, there’s a lot of paper work and arrangements to be made. Agriculture, movement of workers, joint EU funding projects will be difficult, but the basics of the Brexit process are not that difficult unless people want to make it complicated.

Those Remoaners giving Remainers a bad name, and the out-of-touch MPs, need to remember the lesson of five months ago that contrary to Copernicus’s theory, the real world does not revolve around them.

James Conway, Richmond