The EU’s ‘Dark Pool caps’ suspended such trades above a fixed level. The FCA stopped applying Volume Caps to UK equities in Dec 2020 and then to all equities traded in the UK in March 2021. This was formalised in the Financial Services Bill in July 2022.
In Sep 2021 the UK signed a trilateral security and defence partnership with the USA and Australia, known as the AUKUS agreement. As an EU member, the UK was limited to working within the EU Common Foreign & Security Policy – preventing such an agreement.
By leaving the EU and its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to set up an identical one independently, the UK is now able to retain 100% of the billions in revenue received, instead of an EU allocation of a percentage after the EU took 25% off the top.
Brexit saves UK motorists on average £50 a year extra on their motor insurance premiums, by avoiding the impact of a controversial decision made by the European Courts to mandate insurance for vehicles on private land.
On 4th June Labour announced it would follow suit on a promised but undelivered Conservative pledge, to ban the sale in the UK of imported Foie Gras made using the traditional method of force-feeding Geese. Such a ban is impossible without leaving the EU Single Market.
