We asked St Albans MP Anne Main which way she would be voting on June 23.

The EU is undemocratic, costly, and leads to mass immigration that is totally unsustainable.

This is the lived experience of our membership of the EU – not a manipulated Treasury analysis, but simply what has happened.

Most of the EU’s legislation is regulation that we must adopt, and which our parliament has no say over.

This makes up around 60% of our laws. The rest is done through other means, such as directives, which are nodded through the House and we are powerless to stop.

The most powerful part of the EU, the Commission, is entirely unelected – not people we can chuck out.

Immigration is one of the biggest concerns among the public.

As the free movement directive is a central tenet of EU membership, we are powerless to control immigration from the continent.

This not only puts severe pressure on our public services, but also on housing, wages and social cohesion.

By the government’s own extremely conservative estimate, we’ll need a large town the size of Reading every year for the next 15 years.

People have the right to expect schools, houses and hospitals. Where are these going to go?

These are the arguments that the Remain establishment don’t want us to talk about.

And then there’s the cost, which is simply staggering. According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the total sum of savings in the last parliament was £35billion.

These were tough and difficult decisions that the government had to make, and is still making, to balance the books. Over the same period, our gross contribution to the EU mp will be voting out

was £86bn, and £45.4bn net. And to top it all off, the better we do, the more we’re forced to pay – despite the gaping hole we still face in our own domestic finances.

People should have the confidence that their government has control over their money, has control of their borders, and can make laws that suit them. Membership of the EU limits the basic functions of the British government.

The status quo is not on the ballot paper.

Nobody who voted in 1975 would have ever imagined that the common market would have morphed into a superstate.

There is now a clear direction of travel and the only way to get off the escalator is to vote to leave on June 23.

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