Why the new post-Brexit 'UKCA' standard is proving such a headache for industry

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : It is hard to imagine anyone in the "red wall" or pro-Brexit Tory shires ever itching for a UKCA mark when they voted for Brexit, or care a jot about it now.
52% : The government is under pressure to relax some of the immigration rules it brought in after Brexit, adding to the Shortage Occupation List, with the trucking industry leading the way in these calls, but other industries are also pushing.
47% : Brexit is often explained by its proponents as first and foremost an expression of sovereignty -- taking back the right of the UK to make its own laws and not to be controlled by "faceless bureaucrats" in Brussels.
47% : You might think, therefore, that this expression of UK sovereignty (a UK version of a CE mark, for its own sake) is an example of what Lowe calls "performative divergence", ie of little actual consequence but important to show that Brexit has delivered concrete change.
37% : A mixture of issues are contributing to this, including the rules around the furlough scheme which make some people reluctant to go back to work, long-term skills deficits as well as the ending of EU "free movement" which until January took up the slack.

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