Four years ago I was in Parliament Square, we were having the most enormous party.
We were leaving the European Union at 11pm and it really was quite a moment.
But here we are.
Four years on and I'm going to ask the question, is life getting better?
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I think most people would say that life isn't getting better but not because of Brexit.
And despite the negativity that we get from many commentators as if everything from the weather to the economy that we can blame is to be blamed on Brexit, I think the truth of it is that if we look back at what happened four years ago, this evening, it was a gigantic victory.
Brexiteers were celebrating when Britain officially left the EU in January 2020PAIt was an extraordinary victory of ordinary folk against an establishment who did the damnedest after the referendum to stop it from ever being enacted.
Now, four years on, constitutionally the position has changed and there's no going back.
Even Keir Starmer won't possibly talk about re-joining the European Union; that would be an electoral disaster for him in many, many seats, especially in the Midlands and the North of England.
But as somebody who was a Brexiteer and who campaigned for it for over a quarter of a century, there is a great sense of disappointment.
Perhaps one of the key areas is migration.
One of the reasons the turnout was 73 per cent, at least 10 per cent more than the experts thought was because it was a realistic expectation we'd get back genuine control of our borders.
We've chosen not to exercise that right, so I feel a great sense of disappointment.
But I also feel a sense of achievement, that constitutionally we've made the change, and there is no going back.
