Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2022 17:25:38 GMT
Any business person in the room?
Most UK businesses think ‘Brexit freedoms’ not a priority, survey finds
Most UK businesses have no interest in or understanding of the government’s flagship “Brexit freedoms” plan to scrap EU regulations, according to a survey of bosses.
The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said almost three-quarters of company directors were either unaware of the government plans or did not know the details. Across all business areas, about half in the survey of almost 1,000 firms said deregulation was either a low priority or not a priority at all.
William Bain, the head of trade policy at the BCC, which represents thousands of firms of all sizes across the country, said: “Businesses did not ask for this bill, and as our survey highlights, they are not clamouring for a bonfire of regulations for the sake of it.
“They don’t want to see divergence from EU regulations which makes it more difficult, costly or impossible to export their goods and services.”
Rishi Sunak’s government is under growing pressure from business leaders, unions and political critics to withdraw the EU retained law bill, commonly referred to as the Brexit freedoms bill.
The plan to purge a wide range of EU laws from the British statute book was a key policy reform introduced under Liz Truss’s short-lived premiership, promoted by her business secretary, Jacob Rees-Mogg.
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/most-uk-businesses-think-brexit-freedoms-not-a-priority-survey-finds/ar-AA14GKPT?cvid=73111b9af6934141ae377e0019755a2c
Most UK businesses think ‘Brexit freedoms’ not a priority, survey finds
Most UK businesses have no interest in or understanding of the government’s flagship “Brexit freedoms” plan to scrap EU regulations, according to a survey of bosses.
The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said almost three-quarters of company directors were either unaware of the government plans or did not know the details. Across all business areas, about half in the survey of almost 1,000 firms said deregulation was either a low priority or not a priority at all.
William Bain, the head of trade policy at the BCC, which represents thousands of firms of all sizes across the country, said: “Businesses did not ask for this bill, and as our survey highlights, they are not clamouring for a bonfire of regulations for the sake of it.
“They don’t want to see divergence from EU regulations which makes it more difficult, costly or impossible to export their goods and services.”
Rishi Sunak’s government is under growing pressure from business leaders, unions and political critics to withdraw the EU retained law bill, commonly referred to as the Brexit freedoms bill.
The plan to purge a wide range of EU laws from the British statute book was a key policy reform introduced under Liz Truss’s short-lived premiership, promoted by her business secretary, Jacob Rees-Mogg.
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/most-uk-businesses-think-brexit-freedoms-not-a-priority-survey-finds/ar-AA14GKPT?cvid=73111b9af6934141ae377e0019755a2c