Regulation officer ‘affords resignation’ over Brexit invoice

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Regulation officer ‘affords resignation’ over Brexit invoice

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The UK authorities’s regulation officer for Scotland, Lord Eager, has provided his resignation to the prime minister.

BBC Scotland understands the advocate common has discovered it tough to reconcile plans to override the Brexit withdrawal settlement with the regulation.

Lord Eager’s resignation has not but been accepted by Downing Avenue.

BBC Scotland chief political correspondent Glenn Campbell mentioned there gave the impression to be an effort to influence the regulation officer to stay within the put up.

It comes amid an ongoing row over the UK authorities’s Inner Markets Invoice, which Northern Eire Secretary Brandon Lewis advised MPs might “break worldwide regulation” by overriding the withdrawal settlement signed with the EU.

Nonetheless, Lord Eager subsequently mentioned within the Home of Lords that his view was that “the invoice doesn’t of itself represent a breach of worldwide regulation or of the rule of regulation”.

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