So, what else do they plan? Or, as Business Secretary Kwarteng put it “We wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep…”
We can be confident that if the Tories were intent on protecting workers’ rights, they would simply maintain those already enshrined in EU law – rather than ploughing ahead with a review and selecting what they want to keep. This could have been done in a day’s business.
They could have simply picked up Melanie Onn’s Private Members Bill, which produced a complete list of EU regulation and directives.