'They're asking for chaos!' Rees-Mogg warns attempt to derail Repeal Bill risks UK turmoil
JACOB REES-MOGG blasted opponents of the Repeal Bill saying those who seek to derail it are not stopping Brexit but causing “chaos”.
Rees-Mogg issues warning to MPs wanting to 'derail' Repeal Bill
The Tory MP said Remainers and SNP MPs who were planning to vote against the bill would be supporting “gaps” in UK law.
A cross-party group of politicians - both MPs and peers - are believed to be in talks about how to water down the government’s plan for a hard Brexit.
Speaking to the Express.co.uk, Mr Rees-Mogg said: “The Great Repeal Bill is something that is implementation rather than advancement.
“If the Great Repeal Bill isn’t passed by the end of March 2019, it doesn’t stop us leaving the European Union, all it means is there is a hole in our law.
Jacob Rees-Mogg said challengers to the Repeal Bill were asking for "chaos"
If Remainers and the SNP want no Great Repeal Bill, what they’re actually asking for is chaos
“So the 1972 European Communities Act brings European Court judgements and directives into UK law.
“But it’s unclear what happens to European regulations and those regulations may just vanish into the ether, leaving a gap in our law.
“If Remainers and the SNP want no Great Repeal Bill, what they’re actually asking for is chaos.
Anti-Brexit campaigners have revealed they plan to push for a “legislative war” of the Repeal Bill, to be published this Thursday - the first anniversary of Theresa May becoming prime minister.
The group plan to prevent the government from using so-called Henry VIII powers contained in the bill, which would allow Mrs May and her team to rewrite hundreds of laws without primary legislation.
The Liberal Democrat Brexit spokesman Tom Brake said: “The bill will end up being legislative war. This government cannot be trusted with more power than Henry VIII had.
“I wouldn’t trust them to run a bath.
“This bill will look like a Christmas tree because of the number of amendments that will be hung onto it.”
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But senior government sources warned if the plot was successful, the result could delay Brexit “for years” as the government would have to let MPs vote on hundreds of other laws and amendments.
Meanwhile, the MP for North East Somerset hit out against the “bias” of the BBC saying it cannot accept that Brexiteers won last year's referendum.
Mr Rees-Mogg said the corporation was “horrified” with the Brexit vote result and were putting a negative spin on coverage of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union.
He said the BBC had “overcome” its left-wing bias in the lead up to the Brexit referendum but had since been “desperately upset”.