IN a matter of a few short months, the UK has moved from being the strongest economy in Europe, with the strongest growth and doing very nicely thank you very much, to being wracked with uncertainty and having its currency decimated.

This has happened because a few Tory backbenchers, coupled with UKIP, ran a thoroughly discredited leave campaign in the EU referendum based on the fear of mass immigration and more money for the NHS.

They actually had placards printed which said: “Save our NHS, vote Leave.”

In a bid to halt squabbling in his own party, the hapless David Cameron called an EU referendum, the result of which has landed Teresa May with a  real headache: how to implement the democratic will of the British people without causing economic chaos in the process.

The falling value of sterling, is already beginning to drive up the price of food and fuel and as usual it is those on low incomes and pensioners who will be the first to feel the pinch.

The Treasury is worried that inflation will be the next thing to rise as a result of a weak pound, followed by higher interest rates.

In fact everyday living expenses, from food shopping to mortgage repayments, will cost more according to them.

The Conservative Party has always been the party of big business, that is why so many of Mrs May’s MPs are worried about leaving the Single Market.

Japanese multinationals such as Honda, Nissan and Toyota are concerned about putting any further investment into the UK, until they get assurances that we will remain in the Single Market.

The Airbus project is also in jeopardy and the costs for projects like Hinckley Point are likely to spiral.

This is not Project Fear, it is Project Fact of Brexit life.

The only way for the government to halt the fall of the pound’s value and raise business confidence is to state categorically, that the UK will remain in the Single Market.

European leaders are adamant that to be a member of the Single Market means that the UK will have to allow free movement of people.

The Prime Minister cannot give in to this because it is not what the electorate voted for, so she has a real dilemma.

Of course this was denied by the Brexit campaign before June 23, they told us we could ‘have it all’ and take back control of immigration, while remaining in the Single Market.

For that reason MPs of all parties are demanding a parliamentary vote, before Article 50 is implemented because people voted to leave the EU and not the Single Market.

It gives us no pleasure in the Remain camp to say ‘we told you so’ but some of our worst fears are already beginning to materialise and, believe it or not, some of my acquaintances who voted for Brexit already regret their decision.

– True Blue, Tutshill.