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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

Speaker slams top Tory Kemi Badenoch: 'Who do you think you're speaking to?'

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has issued a fierce rebuke to Kemi Badenoch for trying to sneak out a U-turn on the Government's promised post-Brexit "bonfire" of EU laws.

The Business Secretary was hauled to the Commons today after admitting last night that plans to let thousands of laws expire by the end of the year had been scaled back.

Around 600 EU laws will be revoked, rather than the 4,000 pledged, Ms Badenoch said in a written statement.

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