Catherine Barnard on BBC: Ministers to ditch Brexit deadline to scrap retained EU laws

"The government has ditched its plan for thousands of EU-era laws to expire automatically at the end of the year. The plan - dubbed a post-Brexit bonfire - would see laws that were copied over to the UK after Brexit vanish, unless specifically kept or replaced. Critics of the bill had voiced concern that it could lead to important legislation falling away by accident. But the climbdown is likely to trigger anger from Brexit-backing Conservative MPs and members of the House of Lords" Catherine Barnard spoke to the BBC about its impact