But they do implement the jurisdiction—jurisprudence, rather—of the European court. That's clearly what they do, but there are technicalities, you're right—they meet in partnership in the way you describe but, in effect, it is the EU court that determines things.

As for a second referendum, what would be gained? Would we get a decisive and different result? Well, that's unlikely according to Sir John Curtice, and it would cause great damage to our democracy, and I'm not prepared to risk that. Mrs May's deal does offer an end to the uncertainty that we face. It allows us to go through that door which then permits us to negotiate the actual arrangements of the EU. The irony in all this is that this deal only gets us to the starting plate, really, and we must remember that that work is ahead of us. But her deal does honour the referendum, and it offers a prospect of a constructive future relationship with the EU, which now should be our task, not this unfortunate motion that disparages the EU considerably in calling what we have before us a damaging deal.