Insane EU bendy banana law is not on list of regulations to be scrapped in huge ... trends now

Bizarre EU rules about the shape and curve of bananas are among the Brussels' laws set to remain.

Brexiteers were furious yesterday after the government U-turned over plans to axe thousands of EU statues.

Among the newly saved laws is EU Regulation No  1333/2011 - governing the 'standards and requirements in the banana sector', The Sun reports.

The quirky piece of legislation ensures top class bananas are free from any 'abnormal curvature of the fingers'.

Meanwhile, Class I and II gradings of the staple fruit are allowed defects in their shape. 

Some 600 pieces of EU legislation are to be rolled back in the UK, but ministers have reneged on a promise to ditch  thousands more - the bendy banana law among them.

Jacob Rees-Mogg yesterday blasted Rishi Sunak for scaling back the promised 'bonfire' of EU laws as he claimed the Prime Minister was 'behaving like a Borgia'.

The ex-Cabinet minister, who championed the scrapping of leftover Brussels rules when he was business secretary, led a Brexiteer backlash against Mr Sunak for breaching the key pledge.

Mr Rees-Mogg compared the PM to a member of the House of Borgia - a wealthy family who were notorious during the Italian Renaissance for treachery, corruption and immorality.

During his Tory leadership campaign last summer, Mr Sunak vowed to review or repeal 2,400 retained EU laws in his first 100 days as PM.

When he eventually entered No10 in late October, Mr Sunak stuck to a deadline to scrub EU regulations still on the UK statute books by the end of this year.

But yesterday it was announced that rather than getting rid of thousands of pieces of EU legislation, which have now been found to total 4,829, the Government will only revoke 600 laws by the end of December.

Senior Tory Brexiteers have expressed their fury at Mr Sunak over his watering-down  of the aims of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill.