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David Davis will tell business leaders in Austria that fears the Conservatives will plunge Britain into a “Mad Max-style world borrowed from dystopian fiction” after leaving the EU are unfounded.
The Brexit
secretary will claim that Theresa May’s government wants to oversee a
race to the top in global standards, listing workers’ rights, City
regulation, animal welfare and the environment as areas for potential
improvement.
In the latest speech in the government’s “road to Brexit” series,
Davis will say: “We will continue our track record of meeting high
standards after we leave the European Union.
Now, I know that for one reason or another there are some people who
have sought to question that these really are our intentions … these
fears about a race to the bottom are based on nothing – not history, not
intention nor interest.”
British officials highlighted a recent warning in a European
commission presentation to member states relating to workplace safety
standards that appeared to suggest UK workers could be at higher risk of
cancer after Brexit..''
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