Ministers are spending £4 million to hire a private law firm to help deliver on the promised “bonfire” of 4,000 EU-era laws.

The business department has enlisted one of the UK’s biggest law firms to help get push through a bonfire of EU laws by the end of the year. / Ministers are handing £4 million to a top London law firm for help delivering on a promised “bonfire” of 4,000 EU-era laws.

Hogan Lovells is to open in Dublin joining a procession of international law firms to set up shop there in response to Brexit.