The Retained EU Law bill is a needless own goal - diplomatically, economically and politically
Given the potential breakthrough that Rishi Sunak has secured with his Windsor Framework on Northern Ireland, it would be odd if he opted to jeopardise a new era of cooperation with a throwback to the bitterest Brexit wars.
Few Conservatives expect Sunak to preside over a “Singapore-on-Sea” trashing of wildlife or worker rights, but this Bill gifts that image to his opponents. While some rules on finance and technology could be changed to help the UK, this legislation employs a scattergun when a scalpel is needed. That discontent is building and when the Bill comes back for its report stage, it’s looking likely that the Government will suffer a series of defeats as peers try to give Parliament more of a say, to force transparency on individual regulations or to change the “sunset” timetable.
Labour’s Jenny Chapman, who has proposed a “sovereignty amendment” to harness cross-party agreement, put her finger on the PM’s problem when she said this was all an aftershock of the Liz Truss era .
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