Un bill to quickly turn the page on legislation inherited from the European Union? Two years after a Brexit whose benefits are slow to materialize, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is launching a very specific bill on Monday, January 31. Today in an extremely delicate position because of a scandal of parties organized in Downing Street under confinement, the 57-year-old Conservative leader wants to convince of the virtues of Brexit, the realization of which after years of post-referendum political paralysis was the key to his electoral triumph in December 2019.
This new Brexit Freedoms Bill aims to facilitate the process already underway to modify or abandon and replace laws inherited from the European Union. According to the government, these reforms will save British businesses a billion pounds (1.2 billion euros) in “red tape” and “regulatory burden”. But many of these companies complain about the obstacles created by Brexit. According to a survey of the British manufacturing sector published recently, two-thirds of companies surveyed believe that Brexit has hampered their business to varying degrees. Half of them fear that they will face new difficulties this year, with the full entry into force of customs controls.
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“An exciting new chapter for our country”
Hailing Brexit as “a historic moment and the start of an exciting new chapter for our country”, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a statement that his bill will “further unlock the benefits of Brexit and ensure that companies can spend more of their money to invest, innovate and create jobs”. Far from sharing this enthusiasm, the Scottish (independence) government is urging London to solve the problems facing the food sector: lack of labor and red tape.
“For the past two years, Brexit has failed to bring the slightest benefit to the rural people of Scotland,” Mairi Gougeon, the local government minister, said in a statement. In the face of labor shortages, the Scottish government is applying for two-year visas and claims that the 30,000 visas for seasonal workers announced by the UK government in late December are far from the 55,700 deemed necessary by industry unions. in Britain.
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