UK laws banning discrimination on the grounds of age, religion or sexual orientation come directly from the EU’s Equal Treatment Directive.
EU laws have also made it easier for people claiming discrimination to get justice, by placing the burden of proof in discrimination cases on the alleged perpetrator rather than the alleged victim.
To lose those rights, EU law has to be changed - that requires a long process where Members of the European Parliament (representing all strains of political opinion); Ministers from each of the EU member states and the European Commission have to agree to repeal these rights - OR a country like the UK can withdraw and the Government which controls most of the time in the House of Commons - can push through secondary legislation (not even requiring the limited parliamentary scrutiny available to Bills).
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