At one point, the Irish government was asking for "no regulatory divergence".

The main steps highlighted to seek to curb regulatory divergence include: - Enhanced international regulatory cooperation.

Second, he claims, it subverts a key aim of the Leave campaign - regulatory divergence from the EU.

Of this, £55bn can be put down to the impact of non-tariff barriers, which could include regulatory divergence or quotas.

The phone call took place shortly after Foster told supporters she would not allow a Brexit deal that created " regulatory divergence".

The report also claimed that regulatory divergence between Northern Ireland and the republic was the "single biggest risk" to continued north-south cooperation.

Finance minister Sajid Javid said last week that Britain would not be a rule-taker after Brexit, even though some businesses could suffer from regulatory divergence.

Brexiteers were buoyant after Thursday's eight-hour meeting at Chequers, when Theresa May's Brexit war cabinet united behind their demand for regulatory divergence from the EU.

Anything that the "team" that has stuck us in the verbal bog of "managed regulatory divergence" all agree on can never take us forward.

Regulatory divergence is likely a major driving force in evolution.

Regulatory divergence was found to be prevalent among genes associated with defense, olfaction, and among genes downstream of the Drosophila sex determination hierarchy.

Regulatory alignment or regulatory divergence have become the short hand for describing Britain's options for its future relationship with the European Union after Brexit.