Regulation

City blasts Treasury’s ‘dangerous’ efforts to control post-Brexit rules

‘It could compromise the independence of the regulators’

Sunak is spearheading a move to bring regulation closer to policy making
Sunak is spearheading a move to bring regulation closer to policy making Photo: Getty Images

Politicians could soon be dictating how financial regulation is run in the UK as the government plans to lean on watchdogs in the wake of Brexit, regulatory experts say.

In a landmark set of proposals released on 9 November, chancellor Rishi Sunak called for a more “agile and dynamic approach” to regulation by freeing up the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority to throw out former EU rules.

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