1. Both parties set their own labour, environment and subsidies rules.
2. But agree to headline principles, and not to roll back existing levels of protection.
3. If either party reneges on commitments, tariffs may be reimposed.

Where’s the sovereignty issue here? https://twitter.com/davidghfrost/status/1327924802103947265
In this case not sure how UK can justify tariffs on January 1st just because it’s worried that ... tariffs might be imposed later if it actually does significantly roll back a select number of protections that no one in government has seriously suggested they want to get rid of.
I just think we don’t need to talk about the LPF issues in the abstract.

Tariffs now or maybe tariffs later, if we do in fact choose to change rules we seem to actually like.

That’s the question facing the UK government.
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