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Lord Frost has announced a review of all EU laws that have been retained after Brexit to see if any more of them can be abolished.
The Brexit minister announced the review as he gave details of how the government has already drawn up plans to abandon a series of regulations that date from Britain’s membership of the EU.
Thousands of individual EU regulations automatically kept on the statute book after Brexit – known as Retained EU Law – will be scrutinised by the government to ensure they are helping the UK to thrive as a modern, dynamic, independent country and foster innovation across the British economy. The review will aim to remove the ‘special status’ that EU retained law still enjoys in our legal framework and will determine how best to ensure that UK courts can no longer give undue precedence to EU-derived laws in future. This will be done while providing businesses and citizens with legal certainty and will continue the process of restoring the UK parliament to its proper constitutional position.
The government also plans to establish a new commission through which the public will be able to identify additional opportunities for cutting or reforming red tape and bureaucracy. Any individual will be able to submit proposals. The commission will then consider these ideas and make recommendations for change to the government – but only if they go in the direction of reducing or eliminating regulation.
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Here are the main points from the Downing Street lobby briefing.
This formalises Dominic Raab’s position as the prime minister’s deputy – he will stand in for him at PMQs, it demonstrates his seniority within government and the trust the prime minister places with him.
You can expect him to be involved in cross-governmental work when that is necessitated. I’m not going to be prescriptive while we are still in the midst of this process. It is clear he will play an important senior role in government.
I wouldn’t dispute the fact that we’re able to move in this way now we’re not a part of the European Union and that is to the benefit of the British people.
More broadly, we believe the approach we’ve taken is the correct one, it is something the public voted for and it is already bringing benefits to the public.