THE EU referendum will see all three MPs in the Post area campaigning to leave the 28-member organisation.

Conservative MPs North Cornwall’s Scott Mann, Torridge and West Devon’s Geoffrey Cox and South East Cornwall’s Sheryll Murray have all come down in favour of Brexit.

Mr Mann said not a day went by without an issue coming across his desk or a conversation taking place where someone, or something was negatively affected by a regulation that had been passed in Europe.

Writing on his Facebook page he said Britain existed before the EU and would ‘thrive’ out of it: “We will remain in Europe to trade, we will remain a member of NATO to ensure our national security, we will remain a member of the United Nations to have a leading role on the world stage, and we would re-gain our seat on the World Trade Organisation to do business with the whole world and open our arms to countries, peoples, and markets all over the globe.”

Mr Cox recently announced that after ‘wrestling with his conscience’ he would be voting to leave the EU.

He said: “We do not need to be afraid of resuming full control over the government of our country and it is clear that our partners are unwilling to make the necessary adjustments to tackle the fundamental and deeply entrenched problems of the European Union.”

Mrs Murray said on her Facebook page: “I am yet again disappointed but not surprised by the outcome of the EU negotiations. I applaud David Cameron for trying but am not surprised that he did not achieve the sort of deal that would protect the UK for the future.”

She concluded that she was ‘definitely going to Vote Leave’.

“I believe it is important that we stop paying many millions every day to prop up Europe and that we now make that break to be able to run our own country.’

But South West Conservative MEP Ashley Fox this week said he believed Britain’s interests would be best served by remaining in the EU.

Announcing he will be campaigning for an ‘In’ vote at the referendum, Mr Fox said the Prime Minister’s ‘successful renegotiation’ had improved the UK’s terms of membership.

“I want us fully engaged with the single market, which is important for British business,” said the MEP.

“I believe that leaving the EU would put our economic recovery at risk. I am not convinced we would secure satisfactory terms were we to leave and I think the EU would change for the worse were we to do so.”

South West Conservative MEP Julie Girling has also pledged her full support to the Prime Minister: “This is a case of mission accomplished so far as the deal is concerned.

“He has achieved more than many thought possible. We have more powers for own parliament, we have protection for our status outside the Eurozone, and crucially we have the means to roll back benefits tourism.

“Now we really can have the best of both worlds if we all recognise what the Prime Minister has achieved and vote to remain in the EU.

“Cynics said it could not be done but he has proven them wrong again. The hard work must continue though. Now he needs the party and the country to fall in behind him so that this success is not thrown away in the referendum.”

South West Green MEP Molly Scott Cato said her party wanted to stay in the EU to work together on shared solutions on issues such as climate change, pollution and terrorism. She said on her website: “We all know that the EU is not perfect. But we need to stay in it to reform it.

“The referendum is a chance to have a conversation about how another Europe is possible. Let’s talk about how corporate influence and the power of global finance can be curtailed and the institutions of the EU can be made more democratic and accountable to the citizens of Europe.

“It’s a unique opportunity to re-establish a Europe by the people and for the people.”

The Liberal Democrats, while having no MPs or MEPs in the region are still a strong political force, mainly in local government. The party in Devon and Cornwall said it was eager to campaign to remain in the EU.

Chair of the Devon and Cornwall Liberal Democrats Adam Killeya said: “EU funding is one of many reasons that leaving the EU would massively damage both Devon and Cornwall. Literally thousands of jobs from Penzance to Axminster and Ilfracombe to the Lizard are dependent on free trade with the EU. Leaving would put those jobs at risk.

“It’s not only about money though: it’s about the value of peace, co-operation and international friendship above ‘battening down the hatches’. Staying in the EU makes us stronger allowing us to achieve things on tackling crime, protecting consumers and workers’ rights, and safeguarding our environment that we could not achieve alone.”

The referendum on the UK’s EU membership will take place on Thursday, June 23.