Liz Truss has promised to ditch thousands of EU laws remaining on the UK statute books by the end of 2023, despite warnings of “chaos” and disruption from lawyers, business leaders and union bosses.
The foreign secretary has vowed to go faster in repealing or replacing more than 2,000 EU laws than her Conservative leadership rival Rishi Sunak, who had pledged to do the same before the next general election.
