Sir Keir Starmer has defended a controversial bill that will allow EU rules to be imported on to the UK statute book with minimal parliamentary scrutiny, insisting it would help cut business costs and bring down prices.
Starmer will bring forward a bill in next month’s King’s Speech creating a fast-track mechanism to transfer EU regulations into British law in areas — such as food standards — where Britain has agreed to “dynamically align” with Brussels rules.
In most cases they will be adopted by so-called Henry VIII powers, secondary legislation through which parliament cannot amend regulations and where they are usually simply rubber-stamped.
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