In his Chatham House speech on Europe in 2015, Mr Cameron made it very clear that the British people would make the final decision on the EU – not MPs. He also insisted that a second referendum was not on the table – conceding that if the UK voted to leave, then that is what would happen. However, in the three years since the Leave vote, the Remainers have plotted to overturn the result of the referendum, suggesting everything from a second referendum to unilaterally revoking Article 50.

However, Mr Cameron made it abundantly clear while fronting the Remain campaign that a victory for Leave should be respected – a point that appears to be lost on today’s rebels, who are arguably undermining the former Prime Minister’s pledge.

Mr Cameron said in his 2015 speech: “You will have to judge what is best for you and your family, for your children and grandchildren, for our country, for our future.

“It will be your decision whether to remain in the EU on the basis of the reforms we secure, or whether we leave. 

“Your decision. Nobody else’s. Not politicians’. Not Parliament’s. Not lobby groups’. Not mine. Just you. You, the British people, will decide.”

Yesterday, the Queen accepted Boris Johnson’s request to prorogue Parliament for more than four weeks across September and October.

He insisted this was to set out a “very exciting agenda” of domestic policy, but Remain MPs accused him of trying to run down the clock until the Halloween Brexit deadline.

Remainers on both sides of the House have been plotting to prevent the UK leaving the EU without a deal on October 31.

While Mr Johnson vowed to deliver Brexit by this date – deal or no deal – his rivals have threatened to hold a Vote of No Confidence in his leadership and to block no deal.

Commons Speaker John Bercow branded the decision to prorogue Parliament a “constitutional outrage”, while Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn attacked the possibility of no deal as “reckless”.

Many others attacked the Prime Minister’s decision to prorogue Parliament, but according to ITV political editor Robert Peston, it is MPs themselves who are to blame for this.

He wrote in the Express today: “Next week Parliament ‘will roar’, in the words of one senior Tory, about Johnson behaving more like an elected President than as the servant of MPs.

“But if that is so MPs are themselves to blame.

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“It was they who authorised the referendum which saw 17.4 million Britons vote to leave the EU.

“They are reaping precisely what they sowed.”

Indeed, Parliament did approve the referendum to take place and Mr Cameron promised to respect the result, whether he liked it or not. 

He claimed that, while he would campaign to Remain in the EU, he would respect and carry out the wishes of the British public whichever way they voted.

He said in his Chatham House speech: “At that moment, you will hold this country’s destiny is in your hands.

“This is a huge decision for our country, perhaps the biggest we will make in our lifetimes.

“And it will be the final decision. So to those who suggest that a decision in the referendum to leave would merely produce another stronger renegotiation and then a second referendum in which Britain would stay, I say think again.”

He added: “When the British people speak, their voice will be respected – not ignored.

“If we vote to leave, then we leave. There will not be another renegotiation and another referendum.”

Yet, Theresa May was accused of negotiating a deal which was ‘Brexit only in name’, because it would have kept the UK tethered to the EU.

Meanwhile, Remainers like Caroline Lucas have called for a so-called People’s Vote on an issue that has already been voted on.

Indeed, many Leave voters feel like the opposite has happened to what Mr Cameron promised – that they have been ignored, not respected.

As the October 31 deadline looms, many hope that MPs will not be successful in sabotaging the UK’s exit from the bloc.

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