Minister gets REUL

Certainty trumps ideology

The government has announced a fundamental change to its much-criticised Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill.

Retained EU law is the body of law that the UK kept when the Brexit transition period ended on 31 December 2020. The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 had taken a screenshot of this law and uploaded it to the UK’s statute book. That e…