Brexiteers accuse Sunak of treason

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Economy Minister Kemi Badenoch announced on Wednesday that another 600 bills will expire with the help of a new law by the end of the year. The government had previously announced that 4,000 laws from the period of EU membership (1973-2020) would be declared invalid. Badenoch has now acknowledged that there are “risks of legal uncertainty” if the laws initially passed after Brexit are simply scrapped.

The Brexit hardliner and ex-business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg accused Sunak of breaking a promise. “Instead, he decided to keep almost 90 percent of existing EU laws,” former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s confidant told the PA news agency. “This is an admission of administrative failure (…) and the inability of ministers to enforce this in their departments.”

The “Sun” reporter Harry Cole, who is well connected in Tory circles, tweeted that a “delegation of angry Brexiteer Tories” wanted to complain to the group whip responsible (Chief Whip).

Critics, including numerous trade unions and associations, had warned that the project, dubbed “bonfire”, could create gaps in labor law, for example. The government had introduced a bill called the EU Retained Law Bill to parliament. A clause known as the “sunset clause” stipulated that EU-era laws would become invalid at the end of the year if they had not been amended or expressly enforced by then.

(SDA)

Source: Blick