Brexit’s benefits ‘to be unleashed’

SEVEN Bills were unveiled yesterday aimed at ‘unleashing’ Brexit benefits.

The Government will amend or repeal EU legislation that remains in British law more easily without taking ‘decades of parliamentary time’. It will assert the supremacy of Parliament over retained EU law while allowing more of it to be amended without primary legislation.

Ministers are also planning to cut £1billion of ‘EU red tape for businesses’.

And there will be a new data protection regime, new regulation for financial services, changes to public procurement rules and a new approach to environmental assessment in planning laws. Boris Johnson claimed it would ‘finish the job of unleashing the benefits of Brexit’.