Concerns that politicians will begin interfering in regulation and threaten the stability of markets remain as the government looks to push ahead with plans to overhaul the UK's financial services rules in the wake of Brexit.

To mark the two-year anniversary of the country’s split with the bloc, the government published a document entitled The Benefits of Brexit on 31 January, dedicating a chapter to plans to take “full advantage of our new freedom and make us the best regulated economy in the world”.