Rory Stewart

I'm standing up as a member of parliament.

You've elected me.

I'm going to be a dynamic government.

I'm going to get things done.

What real issues were there where that applied?

Well, it turns out, and this is the problem, that firstly, that many of those regulations we wanted to keep anyway.

And partly it's dishonesty, right?

So instead of saying...

The reason why you can't do whatever you want to do on water quality is because of a European Union regulation on clean water.

Which has driven up the quality of our water.

We would have had to say, we want clean water or we want dirty water.

Or if they said, Minister...

You can't plant all these trees because something in the Common Agricultural Policy doesn't allow the use of the single farm payment for that.

If they went to the Union of the Green Union, they would have had to be more honest and said, the way we've designed our farm support package wouldn't allow you to use it for this.

The real indicator of why this went wrong is that we haven't got... I imagine one of the only benefits of Brexit might be that we'd get a bit more accountability and a bit more trust in government.

If we go back to that fundamental idea that we love, the buck stops here, the only advantage of Brexit is we might end up in a situation where ultimately ministers, prime ministers, councillors are able to say, the buck stops here, I made this decision, it's not the fault of.

But instead of which, we've just found another baddie.

It's not the European Union.

Instead, we blame laws.

We blame the European Convention on Human Rights.