NEW: The Delegated Powers & Regulatory Reform Committee in the @UKHouseofLords has just published its report on the Retained EU Law Bill and it doesn't mince its words. It calls for 5 of the 6 most important provisions in the Bill to be removed. #REUL
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The report demolishes the Govt's argument that this Bill will re-establish Parliament as the principal source of law in the UK. It won't. The Bill undermines Parliament by granting Ministers 'extraordinary powers' to dispose, retain, or re-write #REUL by Statutory Instrument. 
The report then hammers the absence of policy substance in the #REUL Bill. It's "all powers, no policy" says the Cmtt. The Bill is so lacking in substance it's not a skeletal Bill it's 'hyper-skeletal'.
In short, the Delegated Powers Cmtt are not happy at all with the #REUL Bill and their report provides Peers with plenty of ammunition for the 2nd Reading debate on Monday 6/2.
The Cmtt kindly mention our @HansardSociety event about the #REUL Bill in the introduction to their report. You can still watch the recording where @bricksilk, @SirJJKC and I chewed the issues over. hansardsociety.org.uk/events/webinar…
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