That can be true of anything related to the EU. It’s entirely possible for a third country to have all the benefits the EU provides for its member countries. T

That can be true of anything related to the EU. It’s entirely possible for a third country to have all the benefits the EU provides for its member countries. The point is that being within the EU gave the UK those benefits for free, whereas being outside the EU mean they need to negotiate every single benefit, and in many cases create expensive bespoke solutions. A committee of highly paid people in some department somewhere in the UK needs to sit down and decide this is a problem, then some highly paid bureaucrats need to spend time understanding the EU regulations, the related UK regulations, and then some other highly paid person, or very often a consultant of some sort, needs to figure out a solution to this that would be acceptable to the UK. A UK diplomat or politician or groups of politicians and diplomats need to make this a pressing issue, they need to find someone in the EU to work with them on this, and then convince them about the new solution, and spend time, money and training on both sides implementing the solution. When the UK was in the EU, on the other hand, a slightly greater effort would have been put in once to come up with this program and how to make it work, but the cost of this effort would be defeated against 28 countries as opposed to just 1. And the UK would also have had a very strong say in ensuring the program was implemented in a way that worked for it.