Your votes on December 11 are your choice and yours alone. This is about what the government and the UK should do if the Commons decides not to endorse the EU withdrawal agreement.

After losing a big vote, the government will be expected to give a considered response. It will be vital that world financial markets know immediately how the UK intends to act. For the government to allow speculators and currency markets to dictate a repeat vote on the agreement in the weeks following would be both disreputable and dangerous.

The prime minister and EU have repeatedly said the EU will not renegotiate the withdrawal agreement. Nick Boles and, it appears, Michael Gove advocate voting for the withdrawal agreement and then negotiating “Norway plus”