I am very grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. It is a question of the sunset and whether one can achieve what the Minister is suggesting in time. A lot of the worries we have are that the Government are trying to move too fast. We are trying to create a new rulebook for ourselves. I quite understand the desire for that, and I quite see the value of a timetable, because, if you do not have a timetable, things will drift into the far future, which is not desirable in view of the objective the Government have. However, they are trying to move too fast. The more we debate these issues, the more complicated they become, and the more people have to be consulted. That is the basic problem. I hope very much that, when we come to look at the sunset, the Minister will take account of these things and be a little more relaxed about the date for the sunset, otherwise we will be moving far too fast and destroying so many rights because of mistakes and misadventures.
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Hope of Craighead
(Crossbench)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 23 February 2023.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill.
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