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Government has announced changes to the "Retained EU Legislation Bill" without informing Parliament directly.

1. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statem…

2. gov.uk/government/new…

(Thanks @stellacreasy)

#wato #bbcpm
@stellacreasy They've reimplemented the REUL dashboard using a diffrent platform?

But still no links from it to the retained legislation, let alone the changed legislation, which might actually have made it of more than passing interest.

#bbcpm
@stellacreasy They didn't tell Big Jake. But then they didn't really tell any of us.

#bbcpm

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