Why has the government changed its mind over EU law plans?
The government has abandoned its plans for thousands of EU-era laws to expire automatically.The laws, which were agreed by the UK when it was a member of the bloc, remained in place after Brexit but were supposed to be repealed or reformed by the end of 2023.What was the government's plan?When the UK left the EU in 2020, EU laws that had applied in the UK before this date were kept in place to "maintain legal continuity and certainty".