Joel Relon

You can have more drought resistant crops.

So benefits for consumers, for farmers.

And so that's what the UK has done.

They've changed the rules.

But as far as I'm aware, that actually practically leading to many material differences yet is not really the case.

We're still in kind of the foothills of the regulatory journey.

Yeah, I think the point about what the EU is willing to accept is really the most important one, because this government is now basically saying in most areas we would like to align rather than diverge.

There are a few special areas where we want to keep our own rules.

Trade policy would be a good example of that, doing our own trade deals.

Mostly we want to get close to the EU, but the EU will say at some point, well, there's a major price to pay for that.

And that probably means payments into the EU budget.

And it almost certainly means free movement of people as well.

Firstly, there's the imagery and the symbolism of being an island nation and having control of your own waters, I think, really speaks fundamentally to the notions of sovereignty, which the Leave campaign was pushing very strongly in the referendum.

And also, it spoke to particular communities which were very, very pro-Brexit.

So whether that's areas like Grimsby, Hull, Plymouth, in Devon, Cornwall, those kind of areas.

Parts of the country that really had lost faith with the political system as well.

So the fisheries issue was something which really spoke to the core constituencies which drove that leave vote.

Two points, really, that they focused on.

So this is all about undoing the common fisheries policy, which the EU sets, which basically says there is a certain amount of fish which can be caught in UK waters and also puts quotas in place.

So the Brits get this much, the Danes, the Germans, the French, etc., get less.