The Daily Telegraph

Labour to foil clean Brexit with help of minor parties

- By Steven Swinford and Jack Maidment

LABOUR is preparing to join forces with the Liberal Democrats, the SNP and the Greens in an attempt to thwart Theresa May’s plans for a clean Brexit and ensure the EU still has oversight over British laws.

David Davis, the Brexit Secretary, will publish the Great Repeal Bill on Thursday, which will transfer up to 12,000 European laws and regulation­s into British law on the day Britain leaves the European Union.

Opposition MPS are preparing to table a series of amendments in the autumn to ensure the European Court of Justice and EU institutio­ns retain influence over British laws and rights after Brexit. The Prime Minister has previously made clear that Britain will not “return to the jurisdicti­on” of the European Court of Justice after Brexit and has insisted: “Our laws will be made not in Brussels, but in Westminste­r.”

The Bill is likely to prove one of the biggest tests of Mrs May’s authority after her failure to secure an outright majority in the election. Bernard Jenkin MP, a Brexit campaigner, said: “These arguments that somehow we need some foreign jurisdicti­on to provide enforcemen­t for UK law are phoney.” ♦ Theresa May has called on Jeremy Corbyn to condemn “bullying” supporters as they were accused of drawing up a “hit list” of 49 moderate Labour MPS they want to leave the party.

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