During June's election, I made two promises about Brexit to my electorate, now my constituents: first, that I would respect the outcome of the referendum; and secondly, that I would work to get the best deal for our fine city. Those are promises that I endeavour to keep every day-I am visibly proclaiming that-and I will do so today by voting for Labour's reasoned amendment and against this Bill getting its Second Reading. It is of course critical that we recognise the outcome of the referendum. The majority of my constituents, and of our country, voted to leave the EU, and they rightly expect their Parliament to get on with the process; I accept that. However, we are talking about not whether we should leave-although regrettably we have spoken a lot about that today-but how we do it. We were not voted in to give Ministers unfettered, unqualified and unchallenged access to doing as they wish. This Bill is fatally flawed, because it utterly bypasses the very Parliament that our constituents elected us to form. That is not a leave or remain issue, or a left or right issue, and it is certainly not an issue of patriotism; it is about believing in our British democracy. If we did accept the Bill tonight, what would we not accept? If Parliament could be demeaned and reduced to a footnote at the stroke of a Minister's pen, and if decades of hard-won rights could be dissolved on the 16:50 train back to a Minister's constituency, what would be the point of having this parliamentary democracy? To accept this Bill is to accept that Parliament is the Executive's creature. That is not taking back control. Parliament is sovereign and should have the due opportunity to act as such. We have been asked to take on trust Ministers' assurances-“Don't worry, the Bill will be improved over this process, and certainly don't worry if it comes into law, because all these lovely powers you're giving us, we'll give straight back.â€ I say to the Chamber: be very wary of the politician who says there is no alternative but to give them absolute power over something. Similarly, be very wary of the politician who says that they will give that power back.