Outrage at Keir Starmer's 'Brexit betrayal' as Labour offers to follow EU rules

The Government says it would rewrite UK laws to lucifer EU rules. (Image: Getty)

The Government has offered to abide by EU rules contempt Brexit.

If caller packaging laws were rolled retired by the union, Parliament volition reportedly rewrite UK laws truthful that they are successful enactment with those crossed the English Channel.

The Northern Ireland Secretary, Hilary Benn wrote to Edwin Poots, the talker of the Northern Ireland Assembly connected Monday, The Telegraph reports.

He said: “We volition instrumentality the steps indispensable to debar caller regulatory barriers arising from our classification, labelling and packaging regimes for chemicals that would undermine supplies into Northern Ireland."

The caput of authorities added: “The Government volition explicitly consult connected applying a accordant authorities crossed the United Kingdom, should this beryllium required to safeguard the UK interior market."

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn has said that the Stormont Brake threshold has not been met. (Image: Getty)

It comes after, successful December, the DUP projected to propulsion the “Stormont brake” - an constituent the Brexit woody that gives the Northern Ireland Assembly the quality to entity to caller European laws - implicit EU regulations connected Chemical Classification, Labelling and Packaging.

All unionist parties backed this move.

However, the UK Government has the powerfulness to find if the threshold for the brake, that the caller laws would person “a important interaction circumstantial to the mundane beingness of communities successful Northern Ireland,” is met.

Mr Benn told Mr Poots that it was not met connected this occasion.

Former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost said: “Hilary Benn has fto the feline retired of the bag.

“We are being pulled backmost by the EU’s tractor beam – and Labour are rather blessed to marque it happen.”

Lord Frost says the Government has 'let the feline retired of the bag'. (Image: Getty)

The adjacent added that the Government’s Product Standards Bill, which enables it follow EU merchandise information rules, meant it could “align our rules with the EU’s”.

Lord Frost said: “Now the authorities has admitted that Northern Ireland volition beryllium the justification for specified alignment."

The person of the DUP, Gavin Robinson, said Mr Benn was “wrong”, and that not activating the brake was a “grave mistake” that “will exacerbate commercialized friction betwixt Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

He added: “It is precocious clip the Government stopped abdicating work and started lasting up for Northern Ireland with conviction, alternatively than surrendering to EU diktats successful the lack of a coherent oregon credible plan."