It was a one-line Whip, but MPs were debating the all-important EU Withdrawal Bill and I wanted to both listen and contribute. Sitting on the Green Benches and listening to other colleagues in the House is extremely educational. You hear a range of views, many of them not my own, which is in itself a good exercise. As MPs we tend to pontificate too much and listen too little. So for some hours I sat in my usual place at the back while colleagues on both sides of the House voiced their views on this Bill. Labour for its part has done a complete U-turn for political gain. Mr Corbyn has decided to betray millions of Labour voters, and disrespect the referendum decision, by three-lining his Party to vote against on Monday night. His spokesman argued that the Bill gave the Government too much power, to put it in simple terms, but this is a smokescreen and a bad one at that. All this Bill does is translate EU law into British law, giving us the power to then review the raft of legislation foisted upon us over the years and to bin what we don't want and to change what we do. Nothing could be simpler or more important, given the result of the referendum. The list of speakers was long and time was limited to 1700. The Speaker reduced us to five minutes each and I held on to 1645 until I knew I was not going to be called. I left as Anna Soubry, a Remainer, ended her speech on what the Leave campaign had allegedly promised the people of this country. No one had the strength or endurance to remind her what the Remain side had warned if we voted to leave. If I recall it was World War 3, economic ruin and the end of the world as we know it. Move on Anna, everyone else has. I put in to speak when the debate resumes on Monday. Home to Dorset.