The government will find taking back control brings its own headaches | Anand Menon and Alan Wager

From workers' rights to hormones in beef, voters expect our politicians to regulate big business just as Brussels did "Take back control" worked wonderfully well as a campaign slogan. It infuriated Remainers while Leavers struggled to specify any European Union rule that they would change should they be able to do so. However, Dominic Cummings knew all too well it was the idea of control, rather than the question of what to do with it, that mattered most to Leave voters. The latter was a problem for later.Later has now arrived. The UK has indeed reclaimed its sovereignty. As a result, we will now have to come to decide what kind of country we aspire to be in terms of broader regulatory terms. The available evidence suggests that the government won't find it as easy to keep on the right side of public opinion when exercising its new-found power as it did when it demanded control. Continue reading...