They didn’t lose the “will” to get rid of EU regulations. It was never practical in the first place. The idea that the UK was gonna get rid of EU regulations wa

They didn’t lose the “will” to get rid of EU regulations. It was never practical in the first place. The idea that the UK was gonna get rid of EU regulations was based on a fundamental lie, that outside of some very specific minor stuff they were onerous, and was based on a lie of omission, about what would happen if they did. If they did get rid of the regulations they wouldn’t be able to trade with their largest trading partner anymore, whereas the trading partner would have over a 100 alternative countries they could replace the UK with. Getting rid of well defined EU regulations would then additionally require passing tons of regulations through a complicated political process. It would require retraining existing bureaucrats and hiring new bureaucrats. It would require rewriting tons of software. It would require exposing themselves to new loopholes because so many regulations and laws they weren’t getting rid of interacted and depended on EU regulations in ways that would not be clear before getting rid of them. Negotiations between the EU and the UK paralyzed the UK political sector for half a decade. Getting rid of decades of EU regulations (which the UK was the biggest driver of along with France and Germany, and held a veto power on every single one), would tie up the Uk Leadership in at least a decade of political bickering and inaction.