EU Exit Negotiations

Antoinette Sandbach Excerpts

Tuesday 5th September 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mr Davis]

The hon. Lady is exactly right. Such people will have to face their own constituents because those constituents voted to leave. This is a practical Bill designed to protect the interests of British business and British citizens. That is what it is there for—nothing else.

[Antoinette Sandbach (Eddisbury) (Con)]

In the Secretary of State’s closing remarks at the most recent round of negotiation, he said that the UK has shown

“a willingness to discuss creative solutions”

on the governance of citizens’ rights. Will he outline in more detail the governance proposals?

[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.