Tony Blair’s reputation would be different if he had abandoned the Iraq invasion in the face of the public’s discontent. Theresa May’s U-turn on Britain’s relationship with the European court of justice after Brexit is one that should be warmly welcomed. With the publication of the government’s latest policy paper, on post-Brexit dispute resolution, none of those assertions is now true. Instead the paper sets out a range of ways in which the ECJ and its rulings will continue to play some part in the rule of UK law after Brexit. This is not the way British law has evolved and it is not the way that the rest of the world works either, especially in trade.

Source: The Guardian August 23, 2017 18:00 UTC