On subsidy control, note that the solution apparently proposed by the EU is pretty much along the lines suggested by numerous U.K. lawyers expert in the field as a landing place between the legitimate concerns of the EU and the current UK government’s antipathy to “alignment”. 
https://twitter.com/tconnellyrte/status/1324971557869989888
See, eg uksala.org/the-future-of-… by @AlexanderPHRose; uksala.org/squaring-the-c… by Totis Kotsonis; uksala.org/compromise-pos… by @jamesrwebber; and uksala.org/is-there-any-s… by me.
There are some differences between those proposals: but the basic structure of each of them is along the lines apparently now proposed by the EU. The current UK government should now bite the bullet and accept this sensible way forward.
NB a sting in the tail: there is now no way that a new UK regime can be up and running by 1/1/21: as I explain at the end of this piece, that means that for a period after 1/1/21 we will have to operate a tweaked version of the EU State aid regime. competitionlawinsight.com/incoming/state…
Fortunately, in best Blue Peter fashion, there is a statutory instrument prepared in 2019 that will do the job. legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/978….
If the current govt had bitten this bullet earlier and used 2020 to develop a new regime - as @michaelgove said they would in March 2020 - then that delay in moving to a new regime would have been avoided. But there we are.
Very good point here.
https://twitter.com/alexanderphrose/status/1325028767174189057
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