SIR Jacob Rees-Mogg has said the government’s plans to align the UK with EU rules will mean the UK paying to take direct orders from Brussels.

Speaking on GB News, he said: “One of our most powerful, totalitarian, forceful kings was Henry VIII, and he decided that he would try to rule by decree rather than through Parliament.

“And Sir Keir Starmer is trying to do the same in his approach to the EU.

“Well, one thing you can say for Ed Davey and Zack Polanski is that they’re honest. They actually want to be back in the European Union, that’s what they believe in. They don’t like democracy. They don’t want to get all the trouble of winning your votes. They like being told what to do by the Brussels bureaucracy.

“That’s been the policy of the Greens and Lib Dems for ages, and there are people who agree with them, fair enough.

“Nigel Farage, the other end of the scale, doesn’t want to be ruled by Europe. Never has been. Again, he’s being honest as of course, is Kemi Badenoch the leader of the Conservatives.

“But Sir Keir Starmer is not. He is saying one thing and doing another. He pretends that he supports the referendum result, that he accepts it, and that they’re not going back into the single market.

“But by their fruits, ye shall be judged, and his fruits are intended to be dynamic alignment with the EU.

“What does this mean? It means we take their rules. And how are we going to do it? We’re going to do it by decree, by order, by command of the highly powerful, centralised state that the socialists always want to have.

“Don’t worry your little heads about MPs voting on it. Don’t allow it to have a proper process. Just steamroller it through negative statutory Instruments, which almost never get voted on, perhaps the occasional debate on the floor of the house.

“No European scrutiny committee to consider the importance of the changes that are being made.

“And why is that? Well, it’s because even the dimmest politician knows that the British people never like pettifogging European regulations, and all that Sir Keir is proposing is to tie ourselves into these ludicrous regulations.

“Who cares about marmalade being relabelled? It’s silly nonsense. It’s not worth parliamentary time. Therefore, if it’s not worth parliamentary time, it shouldn’t happen.

“What about the regulations of AI, which is going to be what generates our wealth for the next generation. Let’s sign up to the European Union and bankrupt the nation.

“It’s absolute madness, and of course, you wouldn’t get it through the House of Commons, even when you’ve got a large majority.

“What about the regulations for the City? The City said they don’t want to join. They don’t want to be part of the single market regulatory framework. Why? Because they’ve discovered being outside it is good for them.

“What about avoiding burnt toast that will give you cancer? Labour’s all in favour of not allowing you to have it genetically edited with gene editing to stop it being carcinogenic.

“They want more dangerous products because they want to follow European rules. Well, even Labour MPs wouldn’t vote for that, so you didn’t let them vote, then let the poor darlings vote. It’s dangerous. They might not let you do what you want.

“And that’s why people voted to leave. They voted to leave because they didn’t like being told what to do by an unaccountable bureaucracy and paying for the privilege.

“That makes it even worse. We will have to give Europe billions of pounds a year so they can regulate our marmalade. It’s a pretty bad deal, and in return, we might get tens of thousands of EU students flooding the country as we go back to free movement of people.

“More migration, more cost, more rules, but no vote: socialism, in action. Sir Keir Starmer failing once again.”