“We will want to prevent EU judges gaining steadily greater control over our
criminal justice system by negotiating an arrangement which would protect it. That will mean limiting the European Court of Justice’s jurisdiction over criminal law…”
That was David Cameron a year ago when he presented the Tories’ EU policy ahead of the General Election. As we all know, much has changed since then. The pledge to ‘repatriate’ powers has been dropped, a victim of the Coalition deal.
But despite this, MPs now have a huge opportunity to make good on pledges to regain control over EU justice laws, and even to repatriate powers should they want to – without having to change a single comma in the EU Treaties.
How?
Well, like this: the ‘referendum lock’, contained in the Government’s EU Bill, will be debated next week in Parliament.
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