Re: [Updated] The UK’s future relationship with the EU
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Originally Posted by Chris
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.
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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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