The government has announced a major climbdown over its Brexit plans to remove EU laws from British statue books by the end of the year.

Only several hundred laws will now subject to Retained EU Law Bill’s 2023 sunset clause.

Company bosses said they would prefer to retain the remaining EU laws rather than see them scrapped.

The Retained EU Law Bill would scrap over 4,000 pieces of legislation. / Rishi Sunak has started to retreat from plans to push forward the potentially disastrous Retained EU Law bill, one report has claimed.

Goodbye, food standards. Hello, corporate lobbyists. Why are we doing this, for no real economic benefit?

The UK's Environment Information Regulations have enabled researchers and campaigners to force water firms to publish data on river pollution, but they may be scrapped as part of the Brexit process.

The Environmental Information Regulation allows the public to demand data from private water companies, but it is at risk of being scrapped by the Government.

The Retained EU Law Bill would rock legal certainty in the UK and undermine the country’s status as an internationally competitive business environment, the Law Society said today as the bill enters its final stage in the House of Commons.

The Retained EU Law bill is a needless own goal – diplomatically, economically and politically.

Ministers have refused to rule out scrapping EU regulations that protect swimmers and wildlife.

The process of ‘sunsetting’ laws envisioned under the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill – introduced into the UK Parliament in autumn 2022 – has led to fears of significant legal uncertainty.

Rishi Sunak plans to rip up remaining EU laws by the end of the year left on the statute book after Brexit - but experts worry that any relaxation in seatbelt rules will discourage people from wearing them.

A recent secret cross-party summit sought to discuss the failures, benefits and remaining opportunities of Brexit. I’d argue it’s high time we left Brexit behind. Not in the sense of rejecting a future relationship with the EU – we need that. But in the sense of those, especially in government, clambering to tell a positive economic story of our departure from the EU.

REUL: Scant time remains to assess which former EU legislation to keep, amend or revoke – and the environment is likely to pay the price. / While we were EU members, the UK adopted some legislation created by the EU. Jacob Rees-Mogg called them “diktats” and promised that after Brexit we’d “take back control of our laws”. This is disingenuous: the UK was fully involved in drawing up EU law.

In the House of Commons, MPs voted against amendments to delay the Retained EU Law Bill. This means that, as it stands, the Retained EU Law Bill will come into effect on December 31st, 2023, jeopardising the standards that keep us safe.

Three years on, we are covered in the scars of what it has done to this country.

Private equity veteran Guy Hands says Boris Johnson ‘threw the country and the NHS under the bus’.

Thousands of pro-consumer laws we take for granted could expire at the end of 2023.

The health and safety industry has warned the government that it might not be a good idea to throw out every European-related law.

A POST-BREXIT “bonfire of banking rules” planned by the UK Government risks driving up food and energy prices even further, campaigners have warned.

This opinion covers the impact assessment (IA) for the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill. ... The IA is not fit for purpose (red-rated); the quality of different analytical areas in the IA are all either weak or very weak, meaning that they provide inadequate support for decision-making. The IA was also red-rated on its assessment of the impacts on small and micro businesses.

It’s high time politicians got real about the EU and single market, extinguished the bonfire of lies and told the truth.

Thousands of EU laws could expire at the end of 2023.

The BBC’s Analysis editor Ros Atkins looks at the controversy surrounding the government’s plan to scrap thousands of EU-era laws.

Sign our declaration today and put on record your opposition to the Retained EU Law Bill. The Bill currently going through parliament would allow government ministers to scrap, amend, or retain over 3,800 laws derived from EU legislation. / These standards and regulations are not simply red tape – they protect our environment, food quality, workers rights, and much more.