The 2022 Queen’s Speech ‘showcased two of the UK’s principal legislative (bad) habits’, Nick Wrightson, partner at Kingsley Napley, writes in this week’s NLJ. Skeleton bills and Henry VIII powers proliferate
‘It was one thing for ministers to be empowered for a two-year period… to make secondary legislation directed at tackling deficiencies in retained EU law,’ Wrightson says.
‘It would be quite another to grant ministers open-ended powers to amend, repeal or replace retained EU law generally. Large areas of UK law are derived from EU law (eg key provisions of employment, competition and environmental law), and the government could potentially override them unilaterally with these powers.’
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