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Government condemned for trying ‘to rush it through’ – in echoes of Northern Ireland Protocol now being torn up. / MPs should block the Australia trade deal because the government has broken a promise to allow it to be scrutinised properly, a damning report says.
Trade committee chair Angus Brendan MacNeil said MPs had been ‘consistently hindered’ in attempts to examine the deal.
Ministers criticised for failing to fight for ‘ambitious’ commitments to cut CO2 emissions.
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak should level with the public that Brexit has scarred our economy
28/03/2022
The Chancellor and Prime Minister need a plan to counter figures showing lower growth after the hit to EU trade.
Talk at this week’s NFU conference will be alive with financial, labour and competition concerns.
Brexit Opportunities Abound – Part 2
17/02/2022
Continuing the letter to Jacob Rees-Mogg, reminding him – he seems to need reminding – of the many new opportunities created by Brexit.
Minette Batters: ‘I feared farmers would be used as a pawn in trade deals – and that’s what happened’
29/01/2022
The NFU president has been dismayed by the government’s post-Brexit deals, but has vowed to fight on for British producers
Minette Batters decries trade deal with Australia and New Zealand. / The president of the National Farmers’ Union has accused the government of using British food producers as a “pawn” in post-Brexit trade deals.
Liz Truss faces backlash on Australia trip over plans to hike UK taxes on wine from Down Under
21/01/2022
Foreign secretary Liz Truss is facing a backlash from Australian wine producers during her trip Down Under, amid complaints that any benefits from a post-Brexit trade deal will be more than wiped out by proposed changes to UK taxes on alcohol.
Tory MP Neil Hudson said he was worried that the free trade agreement (FTA) could see British farmers undercut and “undermined” by cheap Australian meat imports.
The Tories’ post-Brexit trade deal with Australia will harm UK’s farming sector by hundreds of millions of pounds, according to the government’s own assessment.
Australia deal will cause £94m blow to UK farming, fishing and forestry, government admits
21/12/2021
Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit trade deal with Australia will damage the UK’s agriculture and food sectors by hundreds of millions of pounds, according to the government’s own impact assessment.
Australia trade deal to cause £94m hit to UK farming, forestry and fishing, Government study reveals
20/12/2021
Post-Brexit free trade deal will cause a ‘reallocation of resources within the economy’ including a £225m hit to semi-processed food, the Government’s own impact assessment says.
Fears for farmers and anger over dropping of pledge to bind Australia to crucial climate temperature limit.
Investigation finds areas of cleared land in Queensland likely to be habitats for threatened species.
Letter from detainees urges MPs not to back nationality and borders bill to be debated in parliament this week.
The UK's former permanent representative to the EU suggests that post-Brexit trade deals with New Zealand and Australia contribute little to the country's finances.
The Daily Climate Show: Why were climate commitments dropped from the UK-Australia trade deal? [5 mins]
09/09/2021
The Australian and UK governments are at odds over why key climate targets were stripped out of a future trade deal.
TORY ministers caved in to Australian ministers’ climate demands during talks on a post-Brexit trade deal, according to a leaked government email.
The British government secretly dropped a series of climate pledges in order to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with Australia, leaked emails appear to show.
The UK left the EU at the end of 2020, and according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, Brexit has already led to a significant slump in trade between the EU and the UK... / Brexit supporters endorsed the idea of CANZUK – an alliance between the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
So five years after the referendum, and six months from leaving the single market, what's the slogan from businesses most affected? Bureaucracy, delay, cost.
The UK’s trade agreement with Australia led to British farmers and associations voicing concerns about unfair competition and a lowering of food standards.
The UK-Australia trade deal is an 'unprecedented result' for Australia, says former Australian trade negotiator Dmitry Grozoubinski
15/06/2021
'I don't think we've ever done as well as this.' / The UK-Australia trade deal is an 'unprecedented result' for Australia, says former Australian trade negotiator Dmitry Grozoubinski.
Australia has wanted the new agreement but, unlike Britain, has been in no screaming hurry for it. And, unlike Boris Johnson, the Australian Prime Minister faces no domestic political imperative to seal the deal.