Kemi Badenoch’s Brexit bonfire of EU laws could turn into a bin fire

The zealous Brexiteer has been handed a poisoned chalice by Rishi Sunak, as Sean O’Grady explains

Kemi Badenoch broke some bad news to the ERG (PA Wire)

Kemi Badenoch, the business and trade secretary, has said a plan to scrap some 4,000 ‘retained EU laws’ on the statute book is being scaled back to around 800. This has dismayed Eurosceptics everywhere, and there are accusations of a “Brexit betrayal”. Under the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill – the brainchild of Jacob Rees-Mogg when he was business secretary – laws not actively protected or updated by ministers or parliament would automatically be repealed by 31 December 2023 in a controversial sunset clause.

The scaling back of this plan is the latest in a series of corrections to the Brexit flight path engineered by Rishi Sunak.

Where did Badenoch announce this?