1/ Complaints against EU regulations generally come in one of three flavors.



a) They go too far, at the cost of business competitiveness.

b) They're insufficiently flexible for local needs.

c) Their administration is too painful. Complaints against EU regulations generally come in one of three flavors.a) They go too far, at the cost of business competitiveness.b) They're insufficiently flexible for local needs.c) Their administration is too painful.

2/ An FTA is exceedingly unlikely to meaningfully impact the ability of the UK to manage how its regulations are fine-tuned locally, or how they are administered...



... unless that fine-tuning or administration is used as a smoke-screen to render them toothless.