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Friday, October 9, 2026

Sunak's Promise on EU Law Defies Advice of His Treasury Team - Bloomberg Tax

Rishi Sunak, one of the favorites to replace Boris Johnson as UK Prime Minister, is promising to repeal all laws inherited from the European Union before the next election as part of his appeal to the hard-Brexit wing of the governing Conservative Party. His own advisers at the Treasury suggested last month that might not be feasible.

Documents seen by Bloomberg show that a senior Treasury official working for Sunak when he was still Chancellor of the Exchequer privately demanded that EU-derived tax laws be exempted from legislation to scrap so-called retained EU law, or REUL.

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