While I'm on the topic of "Lexit", one interesting feature of this piece by Richard Tuck is that his objection is to the European Convention on Human Rights as much as to EU law. policyexchange.org.uk/pxevents/brexi…
See this passage:
"My favourite example of [a left wing policy ruled out by "constitutional orders"], ... is the creation of the National Health Service in Britain. It required a very unusual constitutional order, since its most distinctive feature ...
"... and the thing which still sharply differentiates it from the single payer systems found in most developed countries (and even, in many respects, in the USA), was the fact that it involved a mass expropriation of private property".
That is to say, he objects to Art1, Protocol 1, of the ECHR.
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