The Prime Minister opened our party conference this week by adding a little extra detail to the plans for Brexit. We've known since the first days of the new Government that Brexit will mean Brexit and that we're going to make a success of it, but plenty of people have been in touch to quite rightly ask what on earth that all means.
Clearly there is still a great deal of detail to be thrashed out but there are three things that have come out at our conference that have reassured me a great deal.
Firstly, business and the markets need certainty and part of that is knowing the timeline for the process. We now know that we will be triggering Article 50 by the end of March 2017 and the Queen's Speech will include a Great Repeal Bill to remove the 1972 European Communities Act from the statute book.
I was also pleased to see that further certainty has been provided by saying that all existing EU laws will be carried over into UK law. That might appear to defeat the point of Brexit but it doesn't. Instead it means we provide the certainty people want and then amend the legislation that isn't working for the UK thereafter.
Finally, I was reassured by the Chancellor's commitment that all EU funding deals secured before Brexit will be honoured by the UK Government afterwards.
Brexit is an enormous project and there is much more that we'll need to understand but this week has been a good start. Nobody likes inaction – I'm glad we're getting on with it.