Sunak sets aside his plan to abolish all laws inherited from the EU

The bonfire on which over 4,000 laws, regulations and rules that the UK inherited from the EU will remain in the campfire, unfortunately the tories adherents Brexit. Government of Rishi Sunak surprised by amending the so-called Community Legislation Repeal and Reform Act (REUL) and removing a provision that stated that by next New Year, all the legal legacy the country had acquired during nearly five decades of membership in the social club would be null and void.

This was announced by the Minister of International Trade, Brexiter Kemi Badenoch, who appeared before parliament this Thursday to explain this U-turn and had to invoke her credentials as a staunch Eurosceptic to face the wrath of some of her party colleagues. “With the identification of the growing volume of regulations and the risk of legal uncertainty posed by their repeal, it became clear that we focused more on preserving EU law, in order to reduce legal risk, than on prioritizing its significant reform,” he explained. official, who announced it Instead of putting an expiration date on all laws, it will only apply to the group of 600.

“We remain committed to ending the dominance of EU law in the UK, we’re just changing the way we do it,” Badenoch said, adding: “This will provide certainty for businesses by clarifying which rules will be removed.”

“Who the hell are they playing?”conservative MP Marko Francois, one of the leaders of the European Investigation Group, an instance that gathers the tories Brexiters. “This is a big draw,” he added.

For his part, former minister Jacob Rees-Mogg lined up against administration officials and the prime minister. He said of the former that “they don’t seem to be working effectively” and accused the president of “breaking his promises”. Sunak said that in his first hundred days in power, he would cancel all current community laws, which did not happen.

Rees-Mogg, who introduced the original project during his time in cabinet with Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, predicted the change would not serve to breach legal alignment with the EU. “Without a deadline, nothing will happen and EU law will remain in place for a long time,” he said.

But Badenoch didn’t just have to deal with wrath of Brexitersbut also from the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Lindsay Hoylewho criticized him for not notifying MPs of the changes, instead announcing them in separate letters published on Wednesday.

The clerk haughtily apologized and earned a reprimand. “Who do you think you’re talking to? (…) I am the defender of this house and I will not accept the reply of a minister who does not accept the rules of procedure of this house, who does not understand that the representatives must be informed. [de cualquier cambio a una legislación] first,” Hoyle told him.