This is the most important point. The EU is big enough that a large proportion of the world has put the cookie popups in. Whether they have done it right is a m

This is the most important point. The EU is big enough that a large proportion of the world has put the cookie popups in. Whether they have done it right is a matter for a separate argument. The UK changing its laws isn't going to change any of this. The only thing it can do it give the bad consequences - the UK isn't big enough for this change to actually cause any good consequences. The solution to the problem of loads of web sites making illegal cookie nag-screens isn't to relax the laws so that they can legally steal our data - it is instead to actually prosecute for the nag-screens.