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My knowledge of EU law is pretty poor, but why couldn't the UK implement its own separate legislation on domestic policy grounds? A bit like France used to do with its odd engine sizes.
My reading is that his point was to have the EU rules include an express set of rules around cabs. That would have obviously had a greater impact as it would have been an EU standard. But if there was a will surely there could have been work around to force it through?
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Ah, more stuff has appeared from when I googled it yesterday.
Looks like parts of it were technically true, mainly we were told that we had to wait for the EU to legislate on the matter and France and Sweden weren't keen on the legislation.
So true in that the UK couldn't make its own rules, bollocks when he suggested that that proposal is supported at every level of UK government