“But if we are going to see a UK Government U-turn on the Retained EU Law Bill which was literally throwing the baby out with the bathwater and seeing if we could save different bits of EU law, if they are now going to change that into a system where they will legislate to get rid of things, that is certainly a much better way of doing things, and we’ll work with the UK Government as soon as we have details from them.
understands that amendments are likely to be laid before the legislation is debated by the Lords from Monday. Some Brexiteers argue that the bill is necessary to encourage the Civil Service to speed up the work of building a new regulatory system post-Brexit which takes advantages of the freedoms available outside the EU.
But Opposition parties, and many constitutional experts, claim that spending time reviewing 4,000 laws which originated in the EU would be a waste because of the likelihood that most will end up being kept, to avoid creating difficulties for businesses that export to the Continent.