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Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill

My Lords, I fear we are in for quite a repetitive afternoon as we work through proposals to exclude one law after another from this Bill.

I want to make a couple of broader points. First, we must remember what the Bill does. It defines a corpus of law inherited from the European Union and says that it needs to be reviewed by the end of the year. As a result of that review, laws will be dropped, retained or restated. There is an attempt being made to suggest that the only option is the first one—that all these laws that are an important part of our regulatory framework will somehow disappear and that people should be very frightened about that prospect. That is obviously not going to happen. This is a fiction.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
827 c1769 
Session
2022-23
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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