Safeguards over data, pay and conditions, GM foods, hedge funds and disposal of old vehicles should all be binned, Daniel Hannan says.

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

THE SCOTTISH Government has welcomed No 10's decision to ditch its planned Brexit “bonfire" of EU laws.

The Tory leadership contender tried to get back on the front foot, saying he'd task a new Brexit department to review 2,400 laws and come up with initial recommendations for "each" of them in 100 days.

Leading regulators have cautioned against a “race to the bottom” as the government looks to take an axe to regulatory red tape in the wake of Brexit.

New staff needed to cope with the government’s controversial retained EU laws bill will cost Whitehall dearly in a financial crisis.

Laws that could disappear include ban on animal testing, workers’ rights and environmental protections.

A plan by Boris Johnson’s government to change the regulation of chemicals after Brexit risks making the UK a “dumping ground” for harmful substances, experts and campaigners have warned.

Downing Street insists "we will not be lowering workers' rights" but does not rule out changes to the EU working time directive.

NICOLA Sturgeon has told leaders in Brussels that she will use the powers of Holyrood to ensure Scotland keeps a close relationship with the EU.

Survey of top bankers and asset managers puts Wall Street in front of the City as favoured location for financial services.

HOLYROOD has been urged to withhold consent to the UK Government's so-called Brexit freedoms bill. / The plans to scrap at least 2,400 laws carried over from the UK’s 47-year membership of the EU have proved controversial.

Study by British Chambers of Commerce reveals flagship bill to purge EU laws is low priority for firms.

The government’s plan to remove all remaining EU regulation could do even more damage to the UK’s weakened economy, say businesses.

There are more EU era environmental laws to review after Brexit than had been previously known, the environment secretary has suggested.

Is a big British version of GDPR likely to balance the demands of consumers, advertisers and media owners alike? We ask marketers what they think of the UK’s planned divergence.

The Labour Party has hit out at leaked plans to diverge from EU workers' rights laws after Brexit.

Only one in 10 voters wants the UK to abandon European regulations on the environment, labour market and food safety, according to a poll.

Labour and the Lib Dems have condemned the chancellor's plan to weaken regulations introduced after the financial crash.

‘Sparkling wine contains same pressure as tyre of large van’: Industry voices concern over health and safety.

Threshold for exemption from regulations lifted from 50 to 500 workers – and to include EU ‘retained law’.

Jacob Rees-Mogg has issued a plea to readers of a tabloid newspaper to write to him if they can identify any possible benefits of Brexit.

BRITAIN can rest easy. The country’s bananas are safe and will not be subject to “malformation or abnormal curvature” following the UK Government’s decision to abandon throwing 4,000 pieces of EU law onto the Brexit bonfire by the year’s end.

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.

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.