This is a classic case of a campaign promise that was large and bold meeting with reality.
Last summer, Rishi Sunak released a film to promote his candidature for Conservative leader.
Huge bundles of paper depicting EU rules slam down on a desk inside of what is known as the “Brexit Delivery Department” before a shredder is carried into the space.
And as they are fed in, those A4 sheets are, you guessed it, met with oblivion one by one.
The video ends with the phrase “Keep Brexit safe.” “Vote for Rishi Sunak today.”
From his point of view, not enough people did, but he eventually won the position of prime minister, and now that video has run afoul of reality.
It turns out that attempting to feed too much information into a shredder too quickly increases the likelihood that you won’t be able to read it all before it gets caught in the metal gnashers and is shredded to pieces.
It has long seemed inevitable that the government would abandon its plan to automatically repeal thousands of legislation from the EU at the end of this year.
Numerous organisations have been warning about the unforeseen consequences of legislation disappearing by default for months.
But many Conservative MPs are upset about this, seeing it as the prime minister’s blatant inability to deliver.
One person informed me that many people believed the government was behaving in “bad faith” and that they did not accept the claim that this deadline could not be met.
About 20 Conservative MPs visited Simon Hart, the chief whip, to express their annoyance.
To do the same, a few Tory MPs travelled to Downing Street.
“There was an arms race during the leadership contest last summer, and Liz and Rishi ended up out-Brexiting one another. That’s where it all began, a top person informed me.
Ministers assert that they are now acting rationally.
According to them, they are still “taking back control,” as the Brexit campaign’s catchphrase put it, but at a more logical rate.
Kemi Badenoch, the business and commerce secretary, “approaches Brexit not as an end in itself, but as a means to an end,” one ally said.
Since Jacob Rees-Mogg, who served as Liz Truss’s temporary business secretary, had been responsible for all of this, she just so happened to inherit it.
The most vocal public critic of Mrs. Badenoch’s idea at the moment is Mr. Rees-Mogg.
We’ll learn which 600 additional laws the ministers plan to repeal before the end of the year next week.
They assert that over 1,500 other people have either left already, have undergone reformation, or will do so shortly.
However, there are still a few thousand that haven’t been examined.
Politicians are said to campaign in poetry and govern in prose.
In this case, we went from a brazen campaign film in August to a statement from a government minister in November.
a broken promise, too.
