Independent assessor deeply critical of proposals to discard up to 4,000 pieces of EU-derived legislation
The plans for discarding EU-derived laws following Brexit have been called “not fit for purpose” by the government’s own independent assessor.
Under new legislation that was the brainchild of the former business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg, thousands of laws copied from the EU to Britain’s statute book will be “sunsetted” by the end of next year if they are not each signed off by ministers to be kept.