by Catharine Barnard and Joël Reland
18th June 2026
In a major new report published by the Federal Trust and The Constitution Society, Professor Catharine Barnard and Joël Reland survey changes in regulation in the ten years since the EU referendum. They argue that in practice the EU and the United Kingdom are drawing closer together as a result of ongoing dependence on the EU market, capacity constraints and a lack of direction-setting in government and Whitehall. Brexit and Regulation reveals shifting political attitudes and their impact on UK/EU regulatory arrangements.
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This report forms part of a series of major research reports the Federal Trust is publishing with the aim of analysing the impact of Brexit on the UK. The two previous reports in this series are:
The Economic Impact of Brexit, Nine Years On: Was the Consensus Right?
by John Springford, June 2025
Brexit and Immigration: The Arc of the Pendulum
by Jonathan Thomas, January 2026
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