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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. It is ten years since the Brexit referendum. I'm Alex Forsyth, a BBC correspondent who's covered Brexit from both Brussels and Westminster. A decade after the decision to leave the EU, what impact has it had on various aspects of public and political life?
This isn't an exhaustive examination, but it is an attempt to understand some of the consequences of Brexit ten years on.
The British people have voted to leave the European Union...
Let June the 23rd go down in our history as our Independence Day.
The UK result leaves me deeply disappointed and profoundly concerned. Brexit means Brexit.
We're going to get Brexit done. I'm sorry. We will miss you.
Claims of a ban on bendy bananas came to symbolise what many Brexiteers saw as a fundamental problem with the EU. Burdensome bureaucracy, an onerous regulation that stifled UK business and innovation. The Brexit campaign lent heavily on the notion that reclaiming sovereignty, ditching so-called red tape imposed by Brussels and setting its own rules would unleash the UK's potential.
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Chapter 2: What has been the impact of Brexit on UK regulations?
I remember the Brexit Freedoms Bill, I think it was called, which was about rolling back some of the EU legislation that was on the UK statute books as a consequence of being a member of the European Union. Did that end up happening? Yes, it did, but not in the form it was originally proposed.
So the original proposal, which came, I think, from Jacob Rees-Mogg, really, as a sort of business secretary and before that as the minister for various things, including Brexit regulation, wanted to sunset all that EU law that we had transferred over into UK law, the thing Theresa May did to make sure that we had a sort of complete statute book when we actually left the EU.
He wanted to sunset it all on a date and say if ministers hadn't specifically said we want to keep that law, then it would just fall away. What happened was over the course of a number of different Conservative prime ministers, we ended up with... A complete reversal. So Kemi Badenoch, who was then the business secretary in charge of this, changed it so that the default became the other way.
So the default was that we retained all that EU law unless ministers specifically said this will go. So what they ended up doing was dumping quite a lot,
of frankly really already redundant rules so they could point to we've got rid of you know all these regulations but none of them really made very much material difference so that's where we are most EU law still sits on the UK statute book with a slightly different name.
Got some numbers on that if you want it.
Please, we love numbers.
They have a dashboard, the retained EU law dashboard. Anyone can go online and look at it.
Actually, very unnervingly kept on changing the numbers of how many EU rules we thought there were.
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