In brief
Since coming to power in 1997, Prime Minister Tony Blair has introduced seven new laws every day, and that’s not counting EU laws. An average of 2,685 new laws have been introduced each year since 1997, an increase of 22% on the previous Conservative administration, according to new research by legal publishers Sweet & Maxwell. Employment law and criminal law are both areas of marked legislative activity, with 40 criminal justice acts passed since 1997, and 98% of all new laws were made through statutory instruments.
