UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government is pursuing new legislation that would allow it to automatically incorporate future EU sanitary and phytosanitary rules — initially covering food and beverages — into British law without full parliamentary scrutiny, a strategy known as "dynamic alignment." Dubbed "Henry VIII powers" in British political parlance (a reference to a 1539 act by which the Tudor monarch claimed the right to govern by decree), the approach would allow measures to pass through the Commons via secondary legislation, bypassing opposition amendments that could delay or derail the process. Critics, including pro-European analyst Anand Menon of the think tank UK in a Changing Europe, warn that the arrangement effectively commits Britain to following EU rules without a vote on how those rules are made in Brussels — what he calls "the ugly part of Brexit."