UK and EU on collision course over ECJ ‘rule of law’

European judges will not be able to the run the rule of law over Britain after Brexit, David Davis has declared. The European Union (EU) wants to be able to insist on enforcing continued legislation by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) as part of any deal to leave the community. Britain will reject any attempt by the EU to keep euro judges in charge of the rights of its citizens living in the UK after the 2019 exit, the Brexit Secretary said. The remaining 27 European leaders have made the continuation of the ECJ’s remit a term for any deal with Britain. But Mr Davis vowed that “we’ll have an argument about that”, adding: “ We are going to be outside the reach of the European court, we are going to be outside the reach of all of the law making capabilities. “The simple truth is we’re leaving.” The Cabinet minister accused the EU of being “wholly illogical” for wanting to tie down an agreement on the size of the UK’s divorce cheque as well as Ireland’s border before a trade deal is hammered out. Initial talks that start next month on how to sequence the negotiations will be “the row of the summer”, Mr Davis predicted. He added: “How on earth do you resolve the issue of the border unless you know what our general borders policy is? It also emerged yesterday that the ECJ is about to hand 38 national and regional parliaments the power to veto a trade deal with Britain, making it even harder to forge one. The Luxembourg-based judges’ imminent decision on a 2014 trade agreement with Singapore is also set to apply to Brexit.