19 July 2017
05 minutes
The day after the UK began the formal process of leaving the EU, the British government published details of something called the Repeal Bill. As its name suggests, the aim of the bill is to repeal the 1972 European Communities Act, which took Britain into the EU. Jolyon Maugham QC, a barrister who is an expert in European law, tells us what we should know about it.
19 July 2017
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