what is the HenryVIII clause in the bill the Gov are desperate to get through parliament?

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can anyone explain what this old clause means?

From the Parliament site
^The Government sometimes adds this provision to a Bill to enable the Government to repeal or amend it after it has become an Act of Parliament. The provision enables primary legislation to be amended or repealed by subordinate legislation with or without further parliamentary scrutiny.

Such provisions are known as Henry VIII clauses, so named from the Statute of Proclamations 1539 which gave King Henry VIII power to legislate by proclamation.^

Basically it gives Ministers the power to bring in or remove primary legislation without having to resort to democratic scrutiny.

jesus

so they basically want to remove democracy?

Yep, the PM and Ministers assume the powers of an absolute monarch and do exactly what they like.

great.

The Lords seem quite keen to squash it though.
& I don't think the Govt can use the cheating statutory instrument thing to push this through?