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The government is trying to use Brexit to rejuvenate its anti-regulation approach – but just how ‘independent’ are its supposedly independent new advisory reports, asks SOLOMON HUGHES

THERE is a small skirmish inside the government that should be made into a bigger conflict over “slashing red tape.”
Two “independent” reports commissioned by the government — that actually come from complete Tory headbangers — are recommending the government return to a crude, regulation-slashing measure called “one-in-two-out.”
Departments will be instructed to delete two old regulations for every new one they create.
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