I have received a number of letters from constituents, worried about the progress of the EU negotiations and the effect this might have on the economy and business confidence. Apart from those few (and really, they are a minority) who want to sabotage the whole Brexit process, most people want us to get on with it. This is why I do not support the amendments to the EU Withdrawal Bill. Most of the key amendments would give either Parliament or the public a vote by way of a second referendum. In my view, such an arrangement would simply hand a colossal negotiating incentive to the EU to offer us a poor deal. Brussels is understandably keen for the UK to reverse its decision to leave and will be all too aware that 74% of Members of Parliament campaigned and voted to remain, as I did, in the June 2016 referendum. As such, they would be much more likely to offer us an unacceptable deal in the hope that parliament or the public might choose to reject it and remain. This, we cannot allow to happen, because it would undermine those democratic processes, that so many of our soldiers fought and died for and who we remembered at the weekend. The other most referred to amendment is about the rights of EU citizens. The Withdrawal Bill already makes clear that there will be no change to the rights of EU citizens living in the UK for those with settled status, who will continue to have equal rights with UK citizens, which means, for example, they will be allowed to bring family members from overseas on exactly the same terms as British nationals.