so to find out what was going on i caught up with two parliamentary experts, dr hannah white from the for government and lord lisvane, who before moving to the lords was clerk of the commons. i began by asking hannah white why the bill was so important. this is really the significant bill relating to brexit and it is going to transfer all the existing eu legislation on to the uk statute book and what the government is doing to enable that process to go smoothly is giving itself quite extensive powers to amend the legislation once it is on the uk statute book. either to make it make sense or to make more substantive policy changes and that is why parliament, lots of people in the commons and the lords, are concerned about the extent of the powers the government has given itself. that all sounds perfectly reasonable. the government has got to get eu law into british law to stop the train coming off the track after brexit, so what particularly is the problem? it is the sheer scale and scope of the powers. the idea that under several clauses in the bill, ministers could amend or repeal an