British Brexit minister David Davis says Britain's rules and regulations will diverge from those set by the European Union after Brexit because the government "will do things our own way".
As a member of the EU, Britain must meet the rules and regulations of the bloc to have full access to the single market and frictionless trade.
"We start at the same position, but we will manage the divergence," Davis told the BBC's Andrew Marr television show.
"Of course we will diverge, we will do things our own way."
Meanwhile foreign minister Boris Johnson said he would oppose any move to adopt EU regulations made after Britain leaves the bloc in March 2019, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported.
Johnson, who campaigned to leave the EU in last year's referendum, is one of Britain's highest-profile politicians and seen as a possible replacement for Prime Minister Theresa May. On Friday, he praised a speech by May in which she set out her plan for a roughly two-year transition period after Brexit.
But the Telegraph reported that Johnson had set out a new set of demands, reviving talk of a split among May's senior ministers which has the potential to destabilise her minority government.
"Boris will be one of those cabinet ministers pushing to make sure we don't have any new EU rules and regulations during the transition," a cabinet source was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
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