Centre for the Union, July 20, Baroness Hoey
This week has seen a total disaster on the Second Delegated Legislation Committee on the Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023, members being removed for even considering voting against it. It is a serious matter and people need to realise how much of an impact these Regulations will have.
In as short a time as a few months, people will realise just how serious the Postal Packets Regulations are. It will be the first of many statutory instruments that result from the Windsor Framework or, indirectly or directly, from the European Union’s attitude to it. As we all know if we read the Windsor Framework, and what the Government and the EU said, they are very different. Even on these postal packets regulations, it is very different.
A number of Lords referred to what the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee said about why there is a rush – why the hurry? Why the Government want to rush this through is very straightforward. They know that, as time goes on and there is more detail, scrutiny and need to work with this in, for example, sub-post offices across the country or through customs officials, we will see that this is not right. It is not going to work. They want to get it through.
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