WHATEVER your opinion on Brexit, we can all agree that it is a big deal.

It will affect generations for generations, and young people have the most at stake.

Good deal or bad deal, it’s definitely a big deal.

This weekend I was privileged to be part of the launch of the ‘People’s Vote’ movement: I stood alongside Conservative Anna Soubry, Labour’s Chukka Umunna, Green leader Caroline Lucas as well as business people and entrepreneurs – and Sir Patrick Stewart provided a bit of startdust too.

We are demanding that the people, not politicians, have the final say on whether the deal the Government comes back with is what they actually want. Not a rerun, but a first referendum on the final deal.

To those who say ‘but we had the vote and now we need to just get on with it’, I point to the new facts have come to light about the costs and complexity of Brexit that no one could have known at the time of the referendum: we know now that there will not be an extra £350 million a week for the NHS; that we will have to pay a £40 billion ‘divorce’ bill; and since the referendum Britain has gone from the fastest-growing major advanced economy in the world to the slowest.

Promises made by politicians about Brexit, like more money for our NHS, are not going to be kept. In fact, Brexit will leave our health service with less money and ever greater staffing problems. The Brexit that was promised is not the one that is being delivered. You should always check the bill before signing, and the public have every right to demand a People’s Vote on the final Brexit deal.

The Brexit process is a complete mess and the negotiations are going badly, which makes it more likely that we will get a bad deal. In eighteen months since the referendum, we have not even started talking about our future relationship and all the Government have managed to do is capitulate on all the big issues, including paying £40 billion for a worse relationship than we have now. By the way, to those who are sick to death of people talking about Brexit, remember we haven’t even left yet: we are set to pay that Brexit Bill until 2064. That’s our great grandchildren paying for this decision. This isn’t an issue that will go away on March 29, 2019: we need to get it right.

Brexit is not inevitable. What the Government comes back with, not what was promised in the referendum, will be the real deal. And the real deal is a big deal, not a done deal. Brexit will affect everybody in the country, which is why it should not be left to 650 politicians in London to decide our future, but the 65 million people of the UK. That is why so many are demanding a People’s Vote on the final Brexit deal.