If you’re a neoliberal the benefits of leaving single market in financial services, losing passport rights etc, outweigh downsides. London banks have already relocated staff to EU to handle s/market trade. And the direction of EU is towards more democratic regulation of finance.
If you're looking at this as a big financial investor, I think you'll have a very different view of the deal compared to, say, a Japanese car maker. How can the UK guarantee it will continue to have tariff free access to EU single market in goods? UK can't really offer this.
Problem with presenting 'dynamic alignment' as an issue of sovereignty, when in fact it was about regulatory certainty and investor confidence. Can't really see this working. So what looks like good deal for manufacturing is in fact a bad one.
The stuff on digital in the deal is completely threadbare. So appears at first sight at least to confirm what @meadwaj argues here: newstatesman.com/politics/brexi…
It's just full of contradictions though. Because in relation to goods this is not a deregulatory deal. And in fact you might even be able to argue the level playing field make the neoliberal Brexiter pet project of 'free ports' and 'special economic zones' pretty difficult.
The EU could respond with retaliatory tariffs if goods from these zones breach the level playing field provisionals. So who's going to invest in them given that level of risk? Just can't see it working. So 'free ports' / 'special economic zones' might end up being 'in name only'.
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