Sunak accused of ‘behaving like a Borgia’ as Rees-Mogg says he has broken promise to shred retained EU law – UK politics live

Jacob Rees-Mogg says PM has failed to deliver on pledge to remove EU laws and accuses him of breaking his word

Good morning. Every Conservative prime ministers since John Major has been criticised by Eurosceptics/Brexiters in the party angry about feeling let down (except Liz Truss, who was not there long enough to initiate the betrayal narrative) and today it is happening to Rishi Sunak over the retained EU law (revocation and reform) bill, which is being gutted of the provisions that would have abolished around 4,000 retained EU laws by the end of this year, unless ministers took an active decision to retain or reform them.

Here is Ben Quinn’s overnight story.