A quixotic plan to roll back EU law
It risks greater executive power, and confusion in court
TOM DENNING, a Master of the Rolls, once described European law as “like an incoming tide.” It was 1974, a year after Britain signed the accession treaty that opened its statute book to laws and judgments crafted in Brussels and Luxembourg. “It flows into the estuaries and up the rivers. It cannot be held back.”
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Digging deep”
Britain February 5th 2022
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- A quixotic plan to roll back EU law
- Mike Lynch has lost Britain’s biggest fraud case
- The government is promising to tackle the NHS backlog
- The laws are being removed from Parliament
- Some British children have been changed by covid-19, probably for good
- Sue Gray delivers a first report on those Downing Street parties
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