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Old 29-03-2020, 21:00   #2737
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Re: [Updated] The UK’s future relationship with the EU

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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
It’s not irrelevant at all.

Trade deals are frequently characterised by mutual recognition of standards, not compliance. A mutual recognition deal that starts from a point of near perfect alignment ought to be far easier to work out than one that begins from a place of great divergence.

There are EU rules written right through our statute book. Even a deliberate effort to diverge from them would take years to produce significant widespread differences.
So doesn’t that mean the PM, Foreign Secretary, and (then) Home Secretary were "not being congruent with actuality" when they said

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Boris Johnson will issue a direct warning on Monday that the UK will refuse close alignment of rules
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Britain will "not be aligning with EU rules" in any post-Brexit trade deal, the foreign secretary has said.
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Britain will have no alignment with EU rules post-Brexit, the U.K. chancellor said, urging companies to “adjust” to the new reality.
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