Details of Great Repeal Bill published

Brexit Secretary David Davis said in a statement to MPs that the bill would allow businesses to continue operating after the UK has left the EU “knowing the rules have not changed overnight”.

He added it would also ensure workers’ and consumers’ rights as well as environmental safeguards were preserved.

“Our laws will then be made in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast and interpreted not by judges in Luxembourg but by judges across the United Kingdom,” Mr Davis told MPs.

He added that the repeal bill will mean the European Court of Justice will not have a “future role” in the interpretation of domestic law and that UK courts will not be required to consider ECJ case law, though UK courts can refer to it “as it exists on the day we leave the EU”, with such decisions having parity with those of the Supreme Court.