Post by thomas on Jul 9, 2023 7:10:41 GMT
Ministers are considering reviving plans to bring back imperial measurements as part of the legislative agenda to be set out in the King's Speech this Autumn.
The campaign to restore units of weight and measurement like pounds and ounces in the UK is popular with many fervently pro-Brexit Conservative MPs. Last year former prime minister Boris Johnson launched a government consultation on giving businesses and customers greater freedom to buy and sell products in imperial rather than metric units, which have long been standard in the UK in line with European Union rules.
While Johnson, along with vocal Brexiteers including Jacob Rees Mogg, was enthusiastic about the change, the 2022 consultation by the now-defunct Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy found that businesses and people preferred metric units like grams and litres.
A Conservative party source said the political disruption of 2022, which saw two changes of government, was another reason why the move to reform weights and measures had stalled. "It got rather lost in all the chaos as it was a medium-level priority," they told PoliticsHome.
Kemi Badenoch, the secretary of state for business and trade, has since decided not to scrap EU regulation dictating the labelling of measurements as part of plans to do away with some Brussels laws by the end of the year.
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