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Could the Consumer Green Paper mean a chance to plan for a better independent UK?
Posted 12 May 2018 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Opinion|Consumer Goods and Services|National
OPINION: Brexit, the consumer green paper and shifting political priorities created an uncertain moment for consumer protection. This piece assesses whether reform could strengthen enforcement or leave Trading Standards facing familiar pressures.
If you cast your mind back to the spring of 2017, political turmoil had left consumer protection with a very uncertain outlook.
Brexit’s seismic impact was still being keenly felt some ten months after the vote, not least by consumer and business groups who questioned how more than forty years of EU laws and policies would be saved or replaced. Then, just as the Article 50 negotiations go...
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