Politics

Boris Johnson plans a ‘bonfire of EU red tape’ and the déjà vu is off the scale

You could be forgiven for having a feeling of déjà vu, as the goverment trumpets a post-Brexit removal of EU regulations from the statute books, loosening environmental rules and scrapping red tape. In other words …

A bonfire of EU laws, in one form or another, was one of the great promises of Brexit and has been headline news many, many times – including these.

The most recent announcement was met with a mixture of dismay and scepticism. Here are some astute responses.

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If the oft-promised ‘bonfire’ doesn’t happen, Holger Hestermeyer has come up with an excuse they can use.

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