MADAM,

Tomorrow I’ll be voting for only the third time in my life and I’ll be voting to leave. I’ve spent the past four months organising the campaign in Monmouthshire for Vote Leave and have given up the last month to work full time for the Welsh campaign in the midst of my A-level exams. From Port Talbot to Monmouth to Hay-On-Wye and all the Valleys in South Wales, people en masse have told us that they’re tired of the way this country and the EU are headed, a feeling which we have the choice to change tomorrow.

If you’re tired of seeing £350 million of our money go down the European drain every week, then you have the chance to change it. If you’re tired of open borders, driving down wages whilst we turn our backs on skilled workers from outside the EU, then you have the chance to change it. If you’re tired of having our politician’s break their manifesto promises because the EU prevents them from enabling certain policies, then it’s your chance to finally take back control and change it.

I’m voting for change that’ll last my lifetime. I want my country to be at the forefront of world trade that benefits everyone, not just Europe. I want to re-craft our ties with the Commonwealth and become an outward looking nation again, not just part of a ‘fortress Europe’. I, like most people my age, want to be an international nation again; a country that builds its own links with developing countries and in turn helps them to properly develop through trade rather than just giving them a handout.

When you go to vote tomorrow, don’t think about how it will affect us one to two years down the line, think instead of how it will help us in the long-term to become great again.

Callum Sloper

(Usk)