Henry Porter writes about the vast powers that the government has taken onto itself via statutory instruments.
Fundamentally he is right, and right to be concerned, but there are a few points:
This is absolutely not new, it has been going on for decades. Like most of these things, it is getting worse.
Calling for laws to actually be passed as bills, getting parliamentary scrutiny, rather than being statutory instruments, is all very well, but falls a bit flat when you see that even laws that are passed as bills by Parliament still aren’t actually read or debated.
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