Legal Expert Explains How Starmer Could Use ‘Henry VIII’ Powers To Bypass Scrutiny
April 13, 2026
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as posted by the channel“They’re called ‘Henry VIII’ powers… after the great king, and he really took a pretty cavalier approach to Parliament.”
The government hopes to implement ‘Henry VIII’ powers in order to more quickly bring UK policy closer to to EU single market rules, but this would avoid the usual “scrutiny” of Parliament, says professor of EU Law at Cambridge University Catherine Barnard.
Catherine Barnard was speaking to Hugo Rifkind and Cindy Yu on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday to Friday from 10am-1pm.
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