Richard Tice, Leave Means Leave Co-Chairman
Theresa May’s triggering of Article 50 today is an historic moment. In theory, it means that Britain is now committed to leaving the European Union. But the activation of the withdrawal process is not the end of the long war to reclaim national independence.
Many months were wasted over Article 50, first in the Supreme Court and then in Parliament. Remainers, led by their lawyers and then by senior politicians of all parties who cannot accept the verdict of the people, first sought to deny the elected government the right to put into practice the instruction to quit the EU handed down in the referendum.
Many more battles lie ahead. Pro-EU fanatics know that they still have plenty of opportunities to derail or, at the very least, delay Brexit. We must puncture the dangerously complacent but seductive myth that the Brexit war is over.
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