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The row over the watering down of the Government's pledge to scrap EU laws deepened last night amid claims that having warnings on packets of nuts saying 'contains nuts' and banning butchers from giving a dog a bone were among the 'daft rules' that will survive.

And Brexiteer Tories say even a law allegedly derived from Nazi Germany 'forest race laws' and relating to the planting of oak trees has had a stay of execution.

Last night, Conservative MP Sir John Redwood said: 'It's absurd that the Government cannot even get rid of the more ridiculous rules of the EU from bent bananas to banning butchers' bones for dogs, let alone giving freedoms to businesses that are suffering from high and needless regulatory and tax costs from the EU.'

Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch sparked fury last week by announcing that a promised post-Brexit 'bonfire' of EU red tape was being scaled back. Instead, she said only a fraction of the estimated near 5,000 EU laws would be removed by the deadline.