TO divert money we send to the EU to the NHS we must be outside of the customs union.

Being inside the customs union costs UK shoppers billions of pounds each year.

We overpay for non-European imports, due to common external tariffs protecting inefficient producers, elsewhere in the EU.

Four fifths of these revenues we send to Brussels.

Prices are particularly costly on clothing, food and footwear, hitting poorer UK families the hardest.

If we stay in the customs union after Brexit we will pay EU tariffs, with no say in setting them.

We will not be able to cut trade deals with other nations, one of the main Brexit benefits.

The UK voted by 52 per cent to 48 per cent, in the Referendum, to leave the EU: the people voted for Brexit, not BINO (Brexit in Name Only).

n If the customs union is so vital, why are we running a massive trade deficit inside the EU, but a massive trade surplus with the nations outside it?

n If the EU is so attractive, why is its very existence dependent on endless printed money?

JAMES ASHINGTON Press officer Warrington UKIP