Rishi Sunak vows to scrap EU laws holding back Britain

Rishi Sunak vows to scrap EU laws holding back Britain

Mr Sunak said: “I am convinced that I have made the right decision by supporting the Leave campaign. Because of Brexit, Britain of the 21st century will be a sovereign, global, free trade nation with full control over its laws, regulations and international trade policy.

“While we’ve done Brexit, there is now so much more to do to take advantage of the freedoms it has given us and to do away with the mass of thousands of unnecessary EU laws and regulations holding us back.

“Today I make a promise. If I am elected Prime Minister, by the time of the next general election I will have abolished or reformed all the EU legislation, bureaucracy and bureaucracy still in our code that is slowing economic growth.

“As Prime Minister, I would task a new Brexit Delivery Department with reviewing all of the remaining 2,400 laws in our code of law – with the first set of recommendations on whether each law should be scrapped or reformed, within my first 100 days on the job.

“We need to take the power away from faceless regulators and give that power to MPs in our parliament. I would demand results from the civil service and government, with my Brexit minister preparing an annual public report on progress in realizing our growth opportunities, and scrapping or reforming the other 2,400 EU laws still in our code of law .”