Teenagers like me will never forgive Dominic Grieve’s generation if they scupper Brexit

One of the most tiresome tropes of the anti-Brexit backlash is the well-trodden line that older voters have somehow ‘stolen the future’ of the country’s youth. And that all of us are sitting at home, angry that our “future” is being stolen. I see it differently. Dominic Grieve’s generation may see the borders of the Europe Union as the end of their own horizons, but a good many members of my generation have never understood this Little Europe mentality. We think global, and no one ever speaks for those of us who see Brexit as part of going global.

When David Cameron called the referendum, I was 13 years old – so not able to vote – but even then I supported Brexit, understanding, as I do now, that it would be a clean break from the EU bureaucracy (and everything that came with it). Most importantly, it was a chance for Britain to go out into the world and make a success of it.