Oven glove madness from EU, says UKIP MEP Louise Bours

New laws from Brussels designed to stop us getting our fingers burnt are far too late - that happened when we joined the European Union, says UKIP MEP Louise Bours.

Her comments come in the wake of approval yesterday in Strasbourg of the Personal Protection Equipment Directive, which means oven gloves marketed as "protective" will have to withstand heat of up to 200 degrees Celsius.

Rubber washing-up gloves will also have to be tested to ensure they can withstand kitchen detergents and cleaning products.

Ms Bours, MEP for the North West, said: "We have actually had more than our fingers burnt after being misled into joining the Common Market, we have watched our sovereignty going up in flames.

“Here we have another unnecessary interference in our lives from bored bureaucrats whose role seems to be dreaming up more and more ways to meddle in our lives.

"An official impact assessment shows that these items will rise in price by up to 20 per cent and this at a time when businesses and householders are having to count every penny.

“In their desire to protect people from perceived injury they may well actually increase the risk as householders could just decide to do without or use ‘decorative’ gloves which were excluded from the legislation."

Ms Bours added: "We need fewer nor more regulations and that can only be achieved by voting for Brexit.

“We have a company here in the North West that makes oven gloves and even though they basically don’t export to the EU they will still have to abide by their rules and regulations.

“In fact only 5% of British businesses trade with the EU yet they have their hands tied by Brussels diktat,” she said.