Ministers already enjoy extraordinary scope to write rules on a whim. The Lords veto on secondary legislation shouldn’t be ditched,except as fragment of a wider package of reformsSome subjects bellow out for sexing up. The question of statutory instruments is one. The very phrase is a turn-off, and the issue is not what a government is actually doing, and only the way it sets approximately it. But to grasp the potential importance of the way laws are made,simply recall that Hitler started out with an enabling bill, which allowed him to dictate policies without troubling the Reichstag.
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Source: theguardian.com