Conservative MPs should vote against the retained EU law bill, which could sweep away 2,000 laws, says Shaun Spiers
Jonathan Freedland speculates that Liz Truss’s failure may have killed off the extreme “ideological project” of a “low-regulation society” (Truss has discredited high-octane, free-market economics – perhaps for ever, 20 October). If Conservative MPs agree, they will vote against the retained EU law bill, which is due to be debated in the House of Commons on 25 October.
This bill could sweep away more than 2,000 laws that protect the environment and safeguard workers’ rights, consumer safety and animal welfare. It will tie up governments and parliaments across the four nations in a costly and time-consuming review process. And its clear purpose is to remove protections so that Britain can become the buccaneering, low-regulation, free-market state that some Brexiteers dreamed of in 2016.
