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Business secretary questioned by speaker, Brexiter MPs and Labour after government scraps ‘sunset clause’
Kemi Badenoch has come under fire from furious Tory backbenchers, the opposition and the Commons speaker after defending the government’s U-turn on retained EU laws.
The business secretary was challenged by Mark Francois, chair of the influential Tory European Research (ERG) Group, who asked why the government had now performed “a massive climbdown on its own bill despite having such strong support from its backbenchers”.
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