The country next door plans to cut regulations ("red tape") to be more competitive.
If its businesses have tariff-free access to your economy, they'll out-compete yours.
So wouldn't you demand they follow the same rules before giving it to them?
Even if theoretically, a post-Brexit cutting of regulations made the UK more competitive, doing so would make the EU put up protectionist barriers, meaning we wouldn't have a single tariff-free export market for 2000 miles around.







