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European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

Let me deal with my right hon. and learned Friend’s helpful intervention in two steps. If what he said in the first step about the supremacy of the Supreme Court’s rulings is to apply—which is not inequality, but puts the Supreme Court above the ECJ in the interpretation of these matters for retained law—that is a perfectly clear position, and one that I, as a matter of fact, would welcome; but then the Bill should bloody well say so. However, he is right, in that even if we presume that the Bill will be adjusted—as I am sure it will be, in the House of Lords—to make it clear that

that is the case, we face the next problem, which is what it is that the poor old Supreme Court is meant to be doing.

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Reference

631 c312 

Session

2017-19

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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