Of course, there is a right way to do this. Some EU-originated regulation might be deemed necessary to continue doing trade with European countries. In some instances, the UK could remain within the remit of EU agencies for a time given the complexity of immediately going it alone. The CBI says that Britain would have to create domestic versions of EU regulatory agencies, and perhaps this is necessary to smooth Brexit. But thereafter their rules should be revisited.

Some of the repatriated regulations are laws that we would have passed anyway, whether we were in the EU or not. There is an irritating conceit among some Remainers that Europe has civilised the UK, that without our membership we would still be sending children down pits. On the contrary, Britain has been the originator of a great deal of progressive legislation.