Deregulation chaos

SIR – What Jacob Rees-mogg (“A bonfire of EU rules is easily achieved”, Comment, November 10) does not explain is that the Retained EU Law Bill turns our parliamentary democracy on its head.

He is expecting MPS and peers to hand ministers the power to delete nearly 4,000 rules and regulations that Parliament has previously agreed. If ministers don’t like the regulation, or their civil servants don’t get round to reviewing it, then it will be gone by the end of next year. It is a recipe for legal chaos, as businesses, local authorities and governmental bodies have no time to adapt and no idea what rules they are expected to adapt to.

These regulations cover everything from environmental protections to the quality standards required to drive business exports to the Continent. This Bill is bad for the environment and for consumer protection, but above all it is bad for British democracy.

As a previous Brexit supporter, I do not regard “taking back control” as handing Parliament’s sovereign power of voting for or against laws over to a chaotic executive.

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green)

London SW1