Joel Relon

Got some numbers on that if you want it.

They have a dashboard, the retained EU law dashboard.

Anyone can go online and look at it.

Yeah, they kept finding more law.

And they've now repealed, so they say, about 30% of retained EU law.

But most of that is just deadwood.

It's stuff which no longer applies.

So it's things like the EU's trading relations with the Solomon Islands and fisheries rules in relation to that.

Stuff that doesn't matter to us because we're no longer part of the club.

Yeah.

So this is, I think, one of the most interesting aspects of where we have diverged, which is not in many areas, but the few areas that we have often diverged.

it's to set higher rather than lower standards.

Animal welfare is a great example.

We've banned the export of live animals for fattening and slaughter.

And there are also higher taxes on alcohol in some areas compared to EU rules.

And I think it speaks to the fact that fundamentally it's taken Brexit to show that our regulatory instincts are more European, I think, than we often assume.

Voters really just, they quite like to ban things.

They quite like the government saying, you're not going to do that rather than we're going to let you do something.

And even in lots of areas where

We haven't kind of made use of Brexit freedoms.