Boris Johnson scraps Theresa May’s pledge to EU that Britain will abide by ‘level-playing field standards’ after Brexit
BORIS Johnson has scrapped a promise to the EU that Britain will abide by “level-playing -field standards” after Brexit.
Ex-PM Theresa May had agreed with Brussels that the UK would stick to similar rules in areas such as competition and state aid plus workplace and environmental protections.
The EU’s 27 leaders insist it is part of any future trade deal in the hope of stopping Britain from undercutting them.
But the passage has been stripped out of the new version of the Political Declaration.
A Cabinet source told The Sun: “The level-playing-field promise has to go, and Boris is very clear about this.
It would seriously restrict our ability to deregulate and to do trade deals with other countries.”
The PM hinted about the move in his letter to EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Wedneday.
Earlier today French leader Emmanuel Macron’s top EU adviser spoke of Paris’s fears that Britain would become a highly competitive economy given a No Deal.
Amelie de Montchalin said: “We have to look at whether standards are being met. I do not want to have a tax haven at the gates of Europe.”
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