'Rolling backwards': How Ministers' 'Henry VIII' powers could torch UK green laws

Michael Holder
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EU Retained Law Bill proposes ditching around 300 green laws this year, while handing Ministers powers to 'weaken environmental rules with impunity' going forward, campaigners warn

The government's latest U-turn on its hugely controversial plan to remove potentially thousands of EU laws from the UK statute books by the end of the year appears to have elicited less of a sigh of relief...

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