“UK Government Backtracks on Plan to Void EU Laws: Conservative Brexiters React”

The pyre on which the over 4,000 laws, regulations and rules that the UK inherited from the EU will be left in a campfire, much to the chagrin of the tories supporters of brexit. The government of Rishi Sunak has surprised by amending the so-called Community Legislation Revocation and Reform Bill (REUL, for its acronym in English) and eliminating the provision that established that by next New Year’s Eve all the legal heritage acquired by the country during the almost five decades membership in the community club would be void.

The announcement was made by the Minister of International Trade, the brexiter Kemi Badenoch, who appeared before Parliament this Thursday to explain this 180-degree turn and had to appeal to her credentials as a convinced eurosceptic to face the wrath of some of her party colleagues. “With the identification of the growing volume of regulations and the risks of legal uncertainty posed by repealing them, it became clear that we were focusing more on preserving EU laws, in order to reduce legal risk, than on prioritizing their significant reform,” explained the official. , who announced that Instead of putting an expiration date on all the laws, it will only apply to a group of 600.

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

“What the hell are they playing?”the conservative deputy Mark Francois, one of the leaders of the European Investigation Group, an instance that brings together the tories brexiters. “This is a massive pullback,” she added.

For his part, former Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg lined up against Administration officials and the Prime Minister. Of the former, he said that “they seem not to be working efficiently” and accused the president of “breaking his promises.” Sunak had said that in his first hundred days in power he would annul all current EU legislation, something that has not happened.

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

But Badenoch not only had to face the wrath of the brexiterssino also from Speaker of the House, Lindsay Hoylewho reproached him for not having informed the deputies about the changes, but for announcing them through separate letters published on Wednesday.

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