The Tony Blair Institute is urging the next British government to settle disputes with the European Union by simply copying European law into British law, effectively rendering Brexit meaningless.
According to the Tony Blair Institute, “the British public’s views on Brexit are beginning to shift” and “more than two-thirds of voters think the UK should be in a closer relationship with the EU,” and that now is the time to resolve issues such as the “unfinished” nature of Brexit in Northern Ireland by complying with Brussels’ regulations in exchange for smoother trade.
It refers to this as a process of “dynamic alignment with relevant EU laws and appropriate governance structures to ensure compliance, including a role for the European Court of Justice.”
The paper’s premise is that “any attempts by the UK government to move its laws entirely away from the EU’s and its regulatory frameworks… are eventually bound to fail,” and that Britain “needs to recognise the reality in which EU rules will continue to affect the UK after Brexit.”
“It’s no surprise that the Tony Blair Institute should come up with such a suggestion. It has never really understood Brexit,” remarked David Jones, a pro-Brexit MP for the Conservative Party, in comments to The Telegraph.
“The British people voted to leave the European Union precisely to be rid of dynamic alignment, and to enable the UK to strike its own course in the world,” he recalled.
“This proposal would leave the UK as a vassal state of the EU, absorbing laws without any democratic input. It is a preposterous suggestion and should be instantly dismissed.”