EU Exit Negotiations

Stella Creasy Excerpts

Tuesday 5th September 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mr Davis]

This is the area where the European Union’s start position was to have European Court of Justice direct effect in the United Kingdom. We have said that we are a country that obeys the rule of law and its international treaties, that the treaty would be passed through into the law—we would repeat it there—and that we may set up some ombudsman arrangement with a reference to it. Those are the sort of ideas that we have in play.

[Stella Creasy (Walthamstow) (Lab/Co-op)]

The Secretary of State cautioned us to think about our constituents in response to his statement, so I am thinking about the nearly 30 million British people—I believe that is the figure—who went to Europe this summer, mainly on holiday. Will he confirm for them today that they will be able to book their European holiday when they come to do so next year, or is he thinking about blue skies, but delivering empty ones at this point?

[Mr Davis]

One duty we do owe our constituents is not to start scare stories.