The UK has published plans to scrap all EU laws from environmental protections to workers’ rights and replace them with UK equivalents.
The starting gun has been fired but political pressures on both sides of the Channel make a settlement a tall order.
Prime Minister Theresa May has triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty to begin a two-year period of negotiations for the UK to formerly leave the European Union.
Changes to the national insurance tax for self-employed people was one of the most controversial parts of the 2017 spring budget.
Former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine has been sacked as a government adviser after speaking out against leaving the European Union and rebelling over the Brexit vote in the House of Lords.