It’s safe to say that David Davis’s turn at navigating the roadmap to Brexit has not gone completely to plan today. The aim of the speech was to reassure businesses and Brussels that the UK will maintain high standards and regulations – with a pledge to keep a level playing field on state aid and competition policy. However, in pre-briefed quotes ahead of the speech, the Brexit Secretary promised that Brexit would not mean Britain is ‘plunged into a Mad Max style world borrowed from dystopian fiction’ but instead will lead a ‘race to the top in global standards’.
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The colourful prose has won much attention in the press – and has led to headlines along the lines of ‘David Davis denies Brexit Britain will be like Mad Max’. The one small problem here is that up until Davis’s speech, no-one was suggesting that Brexit would lead to the country turning into a never-ending version dystopian horror film.
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