Boris Johnson is drawing up plans to remove tracts of EU laws from British statute books by introducing “sunset clauses” that will force ministers to keep them, change them or scrap them.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the minister for Brexit opportunities, told the cabinet this month that the move would set an expiry date on EU regulations.
The measures, in the Brexit freedoms bill, will introduce a five-year “expiry date” for 1,500 pieces of EU legislation. He told ministers it would reduce the burden of regulation on business.
A source said: “The point is to force radical thinking. If the laws are going to expire we can really think about what is actually necessary and have the chance to move away from the EU’s one-size-fits-all approach
