A senior Tory MP has accused Rishi Sunak of solely eliminating “trivial” and “obsolete” EU-era legal guidelines after the Government watered-down its post-Brexit “bonfire” of laws.
Sir William Cash, a number one Conservative Brexiteer and the chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee, has written a letter to the Prime Minister criticising the choice to cut back the plans to scrap the legal guidelines.
The Government had pledged to finish the axing of 4,000 laws by the top of the 12 months however beneath a brand new method simply 600 legal guidelines will now be revoked, sparking a Brexiteer backlash.
Sir William informed Mr Sunak that “almost without exception” the 600 legal guidelines which at the moment are being focused for removing relate to “matters that are trivial, obsolete and are not legally and/or politically important”.
He mentioned that subsequently the Government’s new plans “cannot be construed as lightening the regulatory burden for businesses or spurring economic growth”.
Sir William’s letter units out examples of the “trivial” legal guidelines which he mentioned are being revoked, together with one which associated to “the setting of fishing opportunities for anchovy in the Bay of Biscay for the 2011/2012 fishing season”.
The Government has insisted its new method to scrapping EU-era legal guidelines was “pragmatic and balanced”.
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