{"id":528207,"date":"2026-04-13T08:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/528207\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:46:12","slug":"uk-could-adopt-eu-single-market-rules-under-new-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/528207\/","title":{"rendered":"UK could adopt EU single market rules under new laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The UK Government is planning new legislation that could allow it to adopt some future EU single market rules without a full Commons vote, using secondary legislation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The move is part of wider efforts to align with new European regulations in areas such as food standards.<\/p>\n<p>A Labour source<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c937jkvp3w8o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> told the BBC<\/a>: &#8220;It will lower costs for businesses and get rid of the Brexit paperwork tax that adds to the cost of the weekly shop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The government said the plans would help deliver a food and drink trade deal worth \u00a35.1bn a year while cutting red tape for farmers, producers and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition parties criticised the proposals. Shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith said Parliament would be &#8220;reduced to a spectator while Brussels sets the terms&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Nigel Farage said Reform would oppose the legislation &#8220;every step of the way&#8221;, calling it &#8220;a backdoor attempt to drag Britain back under European Union control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A UK-EU summit is expected later this year, with Keir Starmer saying it would be &#8220;more ambitious&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>FSTE100<\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s flagship share index, the FTSE 100, was down 53-points at 10,546 shortly after opening this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude oil futures were trading at at $101.91 a barrel, up nearly 7%.<\/p>\n<p>Companies reportingSirius Real Estate &#8211; Full Year Trading Statement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK Government is planning new legislation that could allow it to adopt some future EU single market&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-528207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}