It cracks me up that there are people who think that all the FOIs and AWIs and investigators are sitting around wondering what the "regulatory philosophy" is this week compared to last, and changing accordingly.
The "regulatory philosophy" is manifested in and dictated by the volume and content of the thousands of pages of laws that have been made. Mr Skidmore is just as bound as everyone else, and there is no "regulatory philosophy" that can make those laws mean something that they don't.