Leading manufacturers’ group EEF says that the UK should continue to accept EU “red tape” after Brexit as a price worth paying for access to European markets.
When the organization recently polled its membership, more that 70 per cent said they supported the UK remaining part of common European trading regulations and warned that any move to immediately replace EU rules with custom UK laws could be “costly and highly disruptive” to business.
EEF said: “Firms are taking a pragmatic view. With EU environmental regulations and directives already deeply embedded within UK businesses, they are concerned about the cost and disruption of repealing and replacing them with UK-owned legislation.”
