Taking the UK Back to the Victorian Era?

In Victorian times, no pesky environmental considerations got in the way of maximising profits for UK 'industrialists'. They could pump as much soot, as they wanted, into the atmosphere ('dark, Satanic mills'). They could turn any river or stream into an open sewer. They could even sell sawdust, soaked in carcinogenic nitroglycerine, as a cheap alternative to marzipan. Make your party go with a bang! They could add bits of wood, to simulate pips, to artificial raspberry jam. Things changed, however, eventually resulting in the Brits being seen as 'leaders' on environmental issues by the EU (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/20/uk-used-to-be-a-leader-on-climate-lament-european-lawmakers). Things changed again after Brexit (when they left the EU). Of the 600 EU laws to be scrapped by the end of 2024, 341 deal with environmental issues (https://www.iema.net/articles/uk-to-scrap-341-environmental-laws-in-brexit-cull?t=156570). Rivers and coastal waters are again awash with untreated sewage. There are plans to carry on extracting and burning more North Sea oil and gas. It seems the UK is back to facilitating profits, by reducing environmental protections. Was this one of the Brexit 'freedoms' that people voted for?