diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 81f7ce0..f677eca 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 10.9.0
+
+* BREAKING: drops support for `embed:link` syntax
+* Not a major version change as we don't see any usages of the syntax in the wild
+
 ## 10.8.5
 
 * Update dependencies
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bfa193c..813b485 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -568,30 +568,6 @@ will output a image section
 </figure>
 ```
 
-### Link
-
-Links to different documents can be embedded so they change when the documents
-they reference change.
-
-    A link to [embed:link:c636b433-1e5c-46d4-96b0-b5a168fac26c]
-
-with options provided
-
-    {
-      links: [
-        {
-          url: "http://example.com",
-          title: "An excellent website",
-        }
-      ]
-    }
-
-will output
-
-```html
-<p>A link to <a href="http://example.com">An excellent website</a></p>
-```
-
 ### Contact
 
     [Contact:df62690f-34a0-4840-a7fa-4ef5acc18666]
diff --git a/lib/govspeak.rb b/lib/govspeak.rb
index 0c6339d..3f72b95 100644
--- a/lib/govspeak.rb
+++ b/lib/govspeak.rb
@@ -382,17 +382,6 @@ def render_image(image)
       end
     end
 
-    extension("embed link", /\[embed:link:\s*(.*?)\s*\]/) do |content_id|
-      link = links.detect { |l| l[:content_id] == content_id }
-      next "" unless link
-
-      if link[:url]
-        "[#{link[:title]}](#{link[:url]})"
-      else
-        link[:title]
-      end
-    end
-
     extension("Contact", /\[Contact:\s*(.*?)\s*\]/) do |content_id|
       contact = contacts.detect { |c| c[:content_id] == content_id }
       next "" unless contact
diff --git a/lib/govspeak/version.rb b/lib/govspeak/version.rb
index 2c298f2..e0cf349 100644
--- a/lib/govspeak/version.rb
+++ b/lib/govspeak/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Govspeak
-  VERSION = "10.8.5".freeze
+  VERSION = "10.9.0".freeze
 end
diff --git a/test/govspeak_link_test.rb b/test/govspeak_link_test.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 31dac6a..0000000
--- a/test/govspeak_link_test.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-require "test_helper"
-
-class GovspeakLinkTest < Minitest::Test
-  test "embedded link with link provided" do
-    link = {
-      content_id: "5572fee5-f38f-4641-8ffa-64fed9230ad4",
-      url: "https://www.gov.uk/example",
-      title: "Example page",
-    }
-    govspeak = "[embed:link:5572fee5-f38f-4641-8ffa-64fed9230ad4]"
-    rendered = Govspeak::Document.new(govspeak, links: link).to_html
-    expected = %r{<a href="https://www.gov.uk/example">Example page</a>}
-    assert_match(expected, rendered)
-  end
-
-  test "embedded link with markdown title" do
-    link = {
-      content_id: "5572fee5-f38f-4641-8ffa-64fed9230ad4",
-      url: "https://www.gov.uk/example",
-      title: "**Example page**",
-    }
-    govspeak = "[embed:link:5572fee5-f38f-4641-8ffa-64fed9230ad4]"
-    rendered = Govspeak::Document.new(govspeak, links: link).to_html
-    expected = %r{<a href="https://www.gov.uk/example"><strong>Example page</strong></a>}
-    assert_match(expected, rendered)
-  end
-
-  test "embedded link with external url" do
-    link = {
-      content_id: "5572fee5-f38f-4641-8ffa-64fed9230ad4",
-      url: "https://www.example.com/",
-      title: "Example website",
-    }
-    govspeak = "[embed:link:5572fee5-f38f-4641-8ffa-64fed9230ad4]"
-    rendered = Govspeak::Document.new(govspeak, links: link).to_html
-    expected = %r{<a rel="external" href="https://www.example.com/">Example website</a>}
-    assert_match(expected, rendered)
-  end
-  test "embedded link with url not provided" do
-    link = {
-      content_id: "e510f1c1-4862-4333-889c-8d3acd443fbf",
-      title: "Example website",
-    }
-    govspeak = "[embed:link:e510f1c1-4862-4333-889c-8d3acd443fbf]"
-    rendered = Govspeak::Document.new(govspeak, links: link).to_html
-    assert_match("Example website", rendered)
-  end
-
-  test "embedded link without link object" do
-    govspeak = "[embed:link:0726637c-8c66-47ad-834a-d815cbf51e0e]"
-    rendered = Govspeak::Document.new(govspeak).to_html
-    assert_match("", rendered)
-  end
-end