What Liz Truss’ promise to deliver the benefits of Brexit means for UK regulation — and regulators
16 September 2022 00:00
Duration: 19:38
The rise of Liz Truss to the United Kingdom’s highest elected office has the potential to reshape the country’s regulatory landscape. Truss based her leadership campaign within the center-right Conservative Party on the promise to deliver the benefits she believes are yet to be claimed from Britain’s departure from the European Union — including slashing through any residual red tape and making regulation nimbler and more business friendly. But it’s the prospect of an executive having the final say on decisions by independent regulators that has sparked a broader debate on whether politics and regulation can — and should — mix.
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Editorial Team
James Panichi Senior Editor, Asia Pacific
James, an Australian journalist with over 25 years’ experience in print and electronic media, helps to oversee MLex’s coverage of regulatory risk in Asia, with special attention to Australia and New Zealand. In 2016, James was appointed as MLex’s managing editor for continental Europe, overseeing the Brussels bureau’s coverage of EU regulatory affairs and managing a team of 16 journalists in Brussels and Geneva. Previously James worked for the European Voice newspaper, before joining the... Read more
Jakub Krupa Senior Regulatory Correspondent
Jakub leads MLex's coverage of UK legislative processes across multiple beats, with primary focus on data, privacy and security, future mobility and post-Brexit divergence. He also contributes to the broader European and trans-Atlantic coverage on digital regulations.He joined MLex in 2020 to report on data, focusing on EU & UK risks and Brexit, before launching a new future mobility service looking at connected, automated, electric and shared vehicles in 2021.Based in the UK since 2012,... Read more