Sunset clause scrapped
In a major U-turn last month, the UK Government announced that it would abandon the Bill’s sunset clause, which would have automatically bulldozed all Retained EU Law at the end of this year. This threatened to wipe UK statute books of hundreds of vital laws that exist to protect nature and people in the UK, with no requirement that these be replaced.
We won’t be congratulating the UK Government for its decision to stop doing something it should never have even thought about in the first place.
Craig Bennett, Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trusts