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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sophie Wingate

Jacob Rees-Mogg criticises EU law plans as ‘pathetically under-ambitious’

PA Wire

Jacob Rees-Mogg has attacked the Government’s decision to scale back post-Brexit plans to scrap EU laws as “pathetically under-ambitious”.

The former cabinet minister used a speech at the National Conservatism conference on Monday to criticise Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for breaking his promise to complete a “bonfire” of remaining EU-era laws by the end of the year.

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