Kemi Badenoch is dealing with a renewed wave of damning criticism after senior Tory Sir Bill Cash condemned her in a letter despatched to the Prime Minister.

Sir Bill, a lifelong Brexiteer and chair of the European Scrutiny Committee, wrote to the PM at present attacking Kemi Badenoch on a lot of grounds, together with accusations of unacceptable dodging of scrutiny; contradictory arguments over ditching the deadline for scrapping EU legal guidelines; and bottling the Government’s purpose of scrapping burdensome EU laws.

Last week, Ms Badenoch confirmed she can be abolishing Government plans to ‘sunset’ all EU-derived and retained home laws on 31 December 2023, in impact abolishing all legal guidelines handed down from the EU whereas we have been members, except parliament explicitly determined to maintain them.

Now Ms Badenoch has listed 600 items of retained EU legislation (REUL) to be revoked on the finish of December.

However the Brexit committee slammed the chosen items of laws as “trivial, obsolete and are not legally and/or politically important.”

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Sir Bill’s committee says the Government’s Retained EU Law invoice can now not be argued to lighten “the regulatory burden for business or spurring economic growth”.

The committee has listed examples of the EU laws that the Government has determined to prioritise scrapping in December:

• short-term exemptions to repealed EU guidelines on limits to working hours for drivers through the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak;
• authorisation for EU Member States to ratify the 2006 Maritime Labour Convention;
• quota guidelines for the import of 8,000 tonnes of wheat bran originating within the ACP States into the French abroad territory of Reunion;
• guidelines on the allocation of fishing alternatives for the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe; and
• the setting of fishing alternatives for anchovy within the Bay of Biscay for the 2011/2012 fishing season

They observe that greater than 150 of the 600 legal guidelines set to be scrapped on the finish of the yr relate to fishing.

Sir Bill has additionally critiqued Ms Badenoch’s justification for the u-turn.

When the Government launched the sundown clause, Ms Badenoch’s predecessor Jacob Rees-Mogg mentioned it “will increase business certainty”.

However in a letter to Sir Bill defending the choice, Ms Badenoch now claims that eradicating the Bill’s sundown will “provide certainty for business”.

Sir Bill’s letter described this declare as “mutually contradictory.”

In a last hammer blow for Ms Badenoch’s popularity, the committee slammed her for refusing to seem for scrutiny by the committee, having requested 5 instances to seem and provides proof over three months.

A livid Bill Cash mentioned the Committee “should not be put in the position where it has asked a Secretary of State to appear five times to give evidence, over three months, without a clear commitment being forthcoming.”

“The Secretary of State’s failure to appear has frustrated our work on REUL and Brexit opportunities, and is not an issue I would ever have expected to be raising with a Prime Minister.”

He claimed the Government is using “roughshod” over parliament’s potential to scrutinise their work, one thing that's “deeply concerning”.