Legislating for UK Withdrawal from the EU

Desmond Swayne Excerpts

Thursday 30th March 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mr Davis]

I am happy to see him, but not at half-past 2.

[Sir Desmond Swayne (New Forest West) (Con)]

That UK judges will be less creative is an open question. The notion of incorporating EU regulation, and indeed case law, gives me the collywobbles, but I assure my right hon. Friend of my support in the Division Lobby because he has bigger fish to fry.

[Mr Davis]

As the White Paper says, we made a very explicit decision that we would aim to make this a Supreme Court-level precedent—to reduce the number of courts that can deal with this to just the Supreme Court itself. The Supreme Court is fairly careful about changing its own precedent; indeed, it does so relatively rarely. We expect that to continue to be the case, but anything it does this House can change.