Labour could accept the European Court of Justice as an arbitrator in trade disputes after Brexit, but would refuse demands for it to be a final guarantor of European Union citizens’ rights, says the party’s Brexit shadow minister.
In an interview published by The Independent on 4 June, Keir Starmer was asked to clarify Labour’s stance towards the ECJ as guarantor for EU citizens’ rights in the UK after Brexit.
He said: “I can’t see how that would work. As a fundamental principle I can’t agree a two-tier system for access to any court, whether it’s the ECJ or any court. In our system of law, where there is a court people have equal access to it.
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