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Speaker berates Kemi Badenoch over bypassing informing MPs about EU law U-turn

Guardian, 11 May 2023
The speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsey Hoyle lost his temper with Kemi Badenoch when the secretary of state failed to inform the house of the government's U-turn on repealing retained EU laws.
The government has decided to U-turn on plans to allow thousands of EU-inherited laws to expire by the end of the year, news that Badenoch released in a statement and to The Telegraph before making a statement in the House of Commons.
The business and trade secretary said she was sorry that the sequencing was not to the speaker's satisfaction, infuriating Hoyle further
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