Theresa May walking to church in Maidenhead with her husband Philip yesterday. The prime minister is still committed to a complete break from Europe

Pro-European Tory MPs are demanding that Theresa May compromise on her plan to pull Britain out of the European Court of Justice.

This week David Davis, the Brexit secretary, will outline plans to repeal the 1972 European communities act and transpose EU legislation into UK law at the point of Brexit in 2019.

The repeal bill would end the jurisdiction of the European court over British law and create new legal and regulatory structures to oversee the repatriated powers. In a sign of how the bill is likely to be used to influence the outcome of Brexit, however, three former Tory ministers told the prime minister to water down her pledge that the ECJ would have no role in a future relationship with the EU.