Rolf Burnie, of Langdon, Thurlestone, writes:

Without doubt, the single biggest concern for most people in the UK regarding the EU has been its erosion of our sovereignty. And when David Cameron came up yet again against the same old EU ­intransigence on this issue we voted to leave. We wanted our country back again.

True sovereignty for any country involves four distinct areas: control over its borders; control over its laws and judiciary; control over its finances and trading; and control over its language and customs.

EU law, however, has taken precedence over all four of these areas – even the last one, in the form of what is now politically correct to say or believe or campaign about.

That is perhaps the biggest and most important freedom anyone can have, and yet one that has increasingly become subject to the diktats of the EU. We as a country want our ­freedom back and we voted accordingly.

Whether we go for a ‘soft’ or ‘hard’ Brexit is therefore not the issue: the issue for almost everyone is that we get our sovereignty back.

Yes, we want to be open to the rest of Europe; yes, we want to cooperate in dealing with crime or foreign aggression or whatever; but no, we don’t want the EU to rule over us.

Forty years ago we voted to go into the European Economic Community, not the EU, and it is time to go back and be a sovereign, independent nation once again, complete with the freedom to decide and act as we choose and not what

some unelected body imposes upon us.

There is a whole wide world out there for us to relate to again, and one that is just as keen to trade with us as we are with them. We want to be Great Britain again and no longer subject to the rules and control of some vague greater European bureaucratic union.

Is that too much to ask?