Interesting piece. Johnson in the strand of Brexiteers who see Brussels as a regulator, Brexit as freedom from regulation? He then could be genuine when he says no to either EU or US food standards, problem is we live in a regulated world, and all trade is subject to regulation 
The rise of the regulated economy is little studied and therefore not terribly well understood, for example those who think this is just an EU phenomenon could be shocked by the level of US regulation, which is frequently far more onerous than that in the EU.
There is strong domestic demand for regulation, but often resistance to meaningful regulatory cooperation between countries. That can only mean trade barriers. Brexit as case study as to what happens next.
