Rishi Sunak video fails to say some retained EU laws have already been repealed or replaced - Full Fact

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In his latest campaign video, Rishi Sunak has reiterated his pledge to review or repeal “all 2,400” EU laws retained following Brexit. At least 229 of these have already been repealed or replaced, while others have been amended.

on 16 July, where he said: “As prime minister, I would task a new Brexit delivery department with reviewing all of the remaining 2,400 [EU] laws on our statute book.”

Mr Sunak has so far not answered our questions about where the number comes from, but it is similar to the 2,417 items listed on the government’s retained EU law dashboard, which shows that over 200 of these have already been repealed or replaced.is a type of domestic legislation that was created following the end of the UK’s transition period to exit the EU on 31 December 2020.

Mr Sunak’s video does not appear to account for these laws which have already been repealed or replaced, or acknowledge that some have also been amended. We’ve contacted his campaign for comment. The government’s dashboard is the result of a cross-government exercise to identify retained EU law. It is

, so it may not reflect very recent changes, and it also may not be exhaustive. Some laws included in the dashboard may also be more significant than others.We have updated this article to make a clearer distinction between laws that have been repealed, replaced and amended.

 

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Is this your most pointless check yet? In six years no real brexit benefits have been found. Searching the haystack is not the answer. Rejoining the single market and customs union is. And that’s a fact 😉

How much parliamentary time would be devoured sorting them all out ?

Is his new pitch 'Vote for me. I'm as bad as Truss'?

Stu__F NeverRishi

Law is created based on empirical evidence and the agreement of many nations for our benefit... Along comes rishi: 'in the bin with the lot'

It’s important to remember that the U.K. played an important part in creating EU laws over the last couple of decades, they are not “laws imposed on us by another nation”

Until Lyle Lanley returns to Santa Monica, you guys FactCheck are going to be super busy ..

Surely the lie is they are UK laws

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