It was bad before Brexit.
tradingeconomics.com

Though it's a doomed job after Brexit, so maybe I hope he doesn't get the position

Have you ever watched Clarkson's Farm?

It will make your blood boil about how over-regulated that country is. Nothing will work until that gets fixed.

UK is a political economy, really is death by a thousand regulations ...

One final lesson to be taken from the show is that governments have to find a balance between facilitating and encouraging " or preferably just getting out of the way of " all those involved in doing a thing, and the laws and regulations tied around all of that so that one person's thing does not too much interfere with or destroy everyone else's thing. It seems pretty clear, made all the clearer by Clarkson's ventures, that we are now getting that balance dangerously wrong. Clarkson's farm is a noble venture that is, like Gulliver, tied down by a million tiny threads. As the show makes clear, each tiny thread in and of itself might seem pretty sensible and necessary. The danger is that as those threads multiply, the activity that produces all of our everyday miracles might yet find itself totally circumscribed.
moneyweek.com

~1/4 of EU countries are 50/50 about leaving ..
www.statista.com

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT heard chants of "send them back" and "shame on you" from MEPs as they approved the Migration and Asylum Pact.
The tougher rules will grant authorities much broader detention powers and allow for the creation of deportation centres outside the bloc.
Not all voted in favour of the changes, and a division emerged between Irish government supporting MEPs in Strasbourg.
www.msn.com

Spain and Italy at odds..
https://www.voiceofemirates.com/en/news/2026/06/20/escalating-european-dispute-over-migration-italy- and-spain-disagree-on-deporting-asylum-seekers/