Trouble ahead? Potential Great Repeal Bill clashes

Henry VIII

powers Up to 1,000 pieces of secondary legislation will be brought forward to write EU law into British law.

European Charter of Fundamental

Rights Labour wants this to be put into UK law after the country’s withdrawal from the European Union. The Government argues that Britain will still be bound by the European Convention on Human Rights. Devolved administrations The First Ministers of Scotland and Wales, Nicola Sturgeon and Carwyn Jones, said they would not grant legislative consent to the Bill as it does not immediately return EU powers to them.