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It's time the Government started to think about jobs and investment and not keeping people like BoJo and Rees-Mogg happy. Here's two industries that think this.

Britain’s chemical and pharmaceutical industries have called on the government to allow them to remain within EU rules to avoid endangering investment and supply chains, even as Eurosceptic ministers step up a campaign to break away from the bloc’s regulations.
The issue of regulatory divergence has moved centre stage in the Brexit debate since Friday’s divorce deal with Brussels, in which prime minister Theresa May agreed that Northern Ireland would not stray far from EU rules in order to ensure there would be no hard border with the Republic of Ireland.
In a letter to Michael Gove, environment secretary and the UK cabinet’s leading champion of regulatory divergence, the Chemical Industries Association urges the government “to do all it can to remain within or as close as possible” to the EU’s rulebook for the sector.
Steve Elliott, the association’s chief executive, said leaving the EU framework “would seriously bring into question 10 years of investment, as registrations and authorisations that permit access to the EU single market would suddenly become “non-existent” on exit day”.
Referring to Reach, the framework legislation for the sector, he said the EU regulation was “far from perfect” but added that it was still the best way of “ensuring that cars continue to run, planes continue to fly and medicines continue to work”.
But the European Chemicals Agency, which determines EU standard-setting for the safety of chemicals and access to the single market, comes under the legal framework of the European Court of Justice, whose jurisdiction Brexiters are determined to end.

https://www.ft.com/content/8a9d05ce-...4-0a1e63a52f9c