Well, no surprises in this article on The Guardian. It reports that "The government is to loosen EU-derived laws on chemicals in a move experts say will increase the likelihood of toxic substances entering the environment."

This exactly what I and a host of others predicted.

With this latest development, as a result of the increased freedom given by Brexit of the UK to make their own environmental legislation, UK residents now have to contend with:

• A future with more frequent toxic chemical pollution events;
• Water utilities across the country failing to meet the standards about the release of raw sewage into the environment, with no government intervention or fines;
• The whittling away of food standards governing things like chlorinated chicken, growth hormones in beef, antibiotics in our food, pesticides on our vegetables and salad, etc.

There will be more erosion of UK standards in the near future, I am sure.