Brexit, food law and the UK's search for a post‐EU identity

Food law has played a central, contested role in defining the UK's post-Brexit identity as regulating and trading nation. Mapping reforms to key areas of food across retained EU law, UK internal market trade policy reveals profound reforms, an emerging, distinct approach law-making. We identify three themes: increased conferral regulatory powers functions Ministers, coupled with expansion so-called non-legislative approaches regulation policy-making scope for divergence between nations. These have achieved core aims government: autonomy from EU, fully frictionless within Great Britain, streamlined reform. However, achievement these come at price. that legislative processes been shaped by, but also entrench, unilateral executive decision-making, lessened transparency disunity