WITHIN a month we will be heading to the polls to vote in the EU Referendum. There is no “party line” for MPs to take and so I have dug into the arguments trying to separate the jargon from the facts.

I have concluded that those wanting us to Leave Europe are full of rousing rhetoric but ignoring the enormous damage this would do to the British economy and are also short on any ideas for what the world would look like “on the outside”.

Do they want us to leave, but be part of the single market like Norway, with all the costs and migrant movements (and no way to influence them)? Or remain outside and try to trade with the biggest consumer market in the world, paying tariffs as necessary? What about visas? Would those be needed to visit Europe?

To support those who want us to leap into the unknown would be like electing a government without a manifesto and I prefer to choose the path we are on, with Britain as a vital part of a single market, with the ability, as the Prime Minister has shown, to opt out of ever closer political union, or adoption of the Euro.

We already control our borders with passport inspections for all, and intelligence and security services that are second to none.

Yes, Europe needs reform – and we can lead that from within – and start by switching off the gold-plating machine lurking in every British government department.

When it comes to Europe I am with Winston Churchill, who fervently believed that Britain would be better off, safer and stronger in the European Union and that Europe is better off with us at its core. That is why I am voting to Remain on June 23.