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Jacob Rees Mogg in stunning hint that UK Constitutional law could get us out on the 31st

15 October, 2019
David Clews

As we enter the Brexit endgame it has always been felt that the Government has a secret weapon that could see us out of the EU on the 31st of October. There has been a great deal of legal wrangling around the legality of the Article 50 extension but Mr Rees-Mogg has hinted at a solution:

Asked how ministers could get round this legislation, Mr Rees-Mogg said: “The law of this land is subject to the law of the European Union, so we’ll have to see what the legal eagles think.”

He added: “Theresa May got an extension not through UK law, but through EU law and until the 1972 European Communities Act is repealed, EU law is superior law in the UK.

“And the remainiacs all know that, because they know that it takes two to tango and any extension has to be agreed by the council.”

This hints that the Tilbrook case would not be viable as EU law is superior but if the 1972 Act was repealed then UK law would once more be supreme and we could be out.

The Brexiteer urged Leave voters to trust the prime minister, who he described as a “copper-bottomed Eurosceptic” who has ”put his political career on the line” in order to leave the EU.

Mr Rees-Mogg argued that the EU “could act swiftly” when necessary, adding: “The 31 October is a really proper deadline. The prime minister has made it absolutely clear that we will leave by 31 October.

“I think that’s what the whole nation now wants us to do, they want this issue finished, they want it settled.

“Therefore there is great urgency and the EU and the UK will have to move very quickly to make that work.”

Time is running out for a deal for EU leaders to sign off at the European Council summit on Thursday and Friday, despite intensive talks taking place over the weekend.

The EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, said “technical-level” talks between officials over the weekend had proved “constructive”.

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