Precedent
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Attempting to revisit major parts of the acquis communautaire (the body of EU law), and picking and choosing the bits of which the UK approves, could set a dangerous
precedent
.
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There was no legal precedent, no cultural precedent, no technical way of doing this.
We have a
precedent
for this.
There is a
precedent
for technology-enabled service that has been initiated by politicians in multiple countries and has been hugely successful: national lotteries.
The issue is that this is set to engender an environmental problem that is without
precedent.
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