Gina Miller

BREAKING: Downing Street says that neither Keir Starmer nor David Lammy knew that Peter Mandelson failed his security vetting - and lays blame with Foreign Office official for overruling the decision.

My understanding is they'll use secondary legislation/Henry VIII powers to amend primary, existing legislation - The European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020 that incorporated the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement into UK domestic law They're constitutionally/legally allowed to do. That said, all government's have widened their use of these powers. The problem is not just frequency, but scale: powers designed for legal housekeeping have increasingly been used in ways that could alter policy substance since Blair's government. So the constitutional point is this: Henry VIII powers may be administratively useful, but they should be tightly limited, clearly defined, and subject to strong parliamentary controls. If Parliament allows them too freely, it risks normalising executive law-making by decree, which sits uneasily with the principle that major legal changes should be made openly, with scrutiny, and through primary legislation.

You can make the argument for being in control of your own laws. I have done. You can make the argument for writing laws collectively with your neighbours - I wouldn't but others do. What the Labour government are proposing though, is that the EU tell us what our laws are. NO.