A comment piece by Robert Colville in the Sunday Times discusses this, and the whole issue for me is summed up in this para:"In the current negotiations, I know that fisheries, 'non-regression' and state aid are the key areas of difference. 'Non-regression' is the most important red line: essentially, the EU wants to make sure that we match our standards to its own after Brexit, whereas we feel there is no point leaving the EU if we are forced to copy all the regulations it brings in after we go."So, if we want to maintain our access to EU markets, we'll have to match their labour, social, and environmental standards, but if we don't, we'll lose access and our motor industry, to take just one example, will disappear down the toilet because of its reliance on just-in-time movement of parts.And things are not going to be made any easier now that we'll have a Brexit-sceptic in the White House. Makes you wonder what it was all about, this Brexit foolishness.https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/wakey-wakey-brexit-is-a-big-deal-and-the-country-doesnt-know-where-its-going-7g7v36ph9 (paywall)
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