In late April 2023, the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Kemi Badenoch announced that the government was planning to reduce the number of laws to be repealed by 31 December 2023 to around 800, as opposed to the government's original target of around 4,000 laws.

[3][4] Such reversal was met with dismay by Brexit advocates, including the Bill's original architect Jacob Rees-Mogg.

[5] In May 2023, the Bill suffered further reverses as the House of Lords rejected a number of aspects of the proposed legislation.

[8] According to the crossheadings, the act provides for: will be domestic law, which was previously REUL, but without the application of the EU law interpretive features applied to REUL by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (“EUWA”), namely supremacy, general principles of EU law and rights retained under section 4 of EUWAUnder the terms of devolution, the Government of the United Kingdom is required to invite the devolved administrations to indicate their consent (or not) to proposed legislation that would affect devolved matters.

On 23 February 2023, the Scottish Parliament voted to refuse its consent to the bill.