{"id":46524,"date":"2019-10-22T09:35:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T08:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=46524"},"modified":"2019-10-22T09:35:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T08:35:45","slug":"why-the-withdrawal-bill-is-bad-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/10\/22\/why-the-withdrawal-bill-is-bad-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Withdrawal Bill is bad law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is one phrase that appears time and again in the E<a href=\"https:\/\/services.parliament.uk\/bills\/2019-20\/europeanunionwithdrawalagreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill 2019<\/a>. It is this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 14\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote><p>A Minister of the Crown may by regulations make such provision as the Minister considers appropriate<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, the Bill effectively passes most power to Ministers.<\/p>\n<p>And I do not trust our Ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Which is reason enough not to want this Bill passed and for the time to be taken for these issues to be considered properly instead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is one phrase that appears time and again in the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill 2019. It is this: A Minister of the Crown<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/10\/22\/why-the-withdrawal-bill-is-bad-law\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}