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Indeed, here's Scott Mann doing it recently, https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/scott-mann-on-the-working-time-directive-and-brexit-1-6543027

I've come to think of this as the "Brexit ratchet". It goes like this:

"We want control over X."

"You want control over X because you want to do Y."

"No, we want control over X so we can choose."

Gets control of X.

Does Y.

Claims Y is what everybody wanted all along.

Rinse and repeat.