Brexit – a reality check for the fantasy ++ Maastricht

 The Brexit bonfire of EU laws has been drastically scaled back to the fury of the fervent EU-hating lobby. Only 550 laws will be sent into the sunset by December, allowing about 3,000 to remain indefinitely. The Whitehall civil service ‘blob’ has been blamed for their inertia. The British Chambers of Commerce, the business lobby group, welcomed the decision which it said had carried the “real risk of unintended but negative consequences”. The legislation has been he