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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jill Lawless

UK ditches post-Brexit plan to scrap thousands of EU laws by year's end

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Britain’s bonfire of European Union laws has been reduced to embers.

The U.K. government on Wednesday scrapped a plan to remove all remaining EU laws, about 4,000 in all, from British statute books by the end of this year — a post-Brexit goal that critics said was rash and unachievable.

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