Let us take fishing rights as an example. The fishing industry is relatively small in terms of GDP so, from an economic point of view, fishing rights could be traded away for a better deal. But the fishing industry is culturally significant for our country and played an important part in the referendum and last year’s election campaign.

My Scottish Conservative colleagues pledged to their voters that they would take back control of our fishing waters. So how could they possibly justify supporting a deal which gives away those rights? If the Government gets its way, their only other choice will be no deal.

Likewise, how could Leavers vote for a deal which ties Britain to EU regulation or into a customs arrangement that makes free trade deals with the rest of the world an impossible dream? The Government’s current line means they are in danger of losing everything for which they campaigned.