Select committee says ministers want to rush through deal allowing food imports that fall below UK environmental standards.
The UK is expected to offer Australia a trade deal later on Friday, under which both countries would phase out taxes on imports over 15 years.
Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed has said the UK's tariff proposals in the event of a no-deal Brexit are a "potential disaster".
‘Groundbreaking’ agreement criticised by UK farmers is part of 10-year plan to pivot to Indo-Pacific
Fears for farmers and anger over dropping of pledge to bind Australia to crucial climate temperature limit.
Government modelling suggests deal could damage some UK industries like farming and food processing. / But the government's own estimates for the deal suggest it will have a negligible impact of 0.02 per cent to 0.03 per cent of GDP by 2033.
New restrictions on administering drugs to healthy animals come into force across EU to tackle critical overuse, but UK fails to follow suit.
The United Kingdom is planning to cut tariffs on U.S. agricultural imports to advance progress on a free trade agreement, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
UK pig exports 'facing a crisis'
09/02/2021
A "perfect storm" of Covid impacts and post-Brexit bureaucracy threaten to plunge British pig farmers into a crisis, an industry body has warned.
A recent government report warned that labour shortages "caused by Brexit and accentuated by the pandemic" were badly affecting our food and farming sector, with fruit suppliers often forced to leave produce rotting in the fields.
UK has handed Australia whip hand in trade deal talks by being ‘desperate’, Boris Johnson warned
20/05/2021
‘It gives the Australians the ability to say, ‘we’ll dig in – here are our terms, but we’re not going to budge’.
The “blind optimism” shown by UK government ministers in their plans for the future of England’s farms could result in many small and tenant farmers being forced out of business, a parliamentary report has warned.
The International Trade Committee, a cross-party committee of UK members of parliament, has warned the government against “overselling” its free trade agreement (FTA) with Australia, saying that “flat-footed negotiating” has led to significant concessions without securing all possible benefits in return.
A Welsh farming union say yesterday’s Budget broke a Conservative manifesto and Brexit campaign promise not to cut rural funding.
Costs of inputs like fertiliser and animal feed have jumped by 30 per cent compounding Brexit labour shortages.
A TORY Minister has been unable to name a single benefit Brexit has offered Scottish farmers.
Brexit was supposed to lead to a new era of green agriculture, but farmers are on the brink as they can't access the government environmental subsidy schemes
For years, foreign workers from the EU have helped UK farmers harvest their crops. In the southeast county of Kent, lettuce farmers fear the upcoming divorce between Britain and the EU could leave them short of labor and even threaten food supplies.
UK farmers 'betrayed' by government's Brexit tariff plans that risk flooding UK with lower-quality imported food
08/10/2019
British goods face tariffs of up to 60 per cent while many imports won't be charged any under latest Tory plans.
UK faces food shortages as up to 75% of seasonal worker roles unfilled – even Mail admits Brexit a factor
20/05/2022
Before Brexit most of Britain's seasonal crop pickers came over from eastern Europe.
However, disenchantment with Brexit has been one of the most notable trends of 2022 with a feeling that it has not lived up to the promises made at the time of the referendum. / Two thirds or 65% of British people think Brexit has gone badly compared to just 21% who think it has gone well according to an Opinium survey in early December.
UK companies face Brexit import controls
03/01/2022
British firms face the introduction of much-delayed post-Brexit border control checks from 1 January which will affect businesses importing $314 billion of goods a year from the European Union.
The U.K. will set up a new commission to inform its post-Brexit agricultural policy, bowing to pressure from British farmers and potentially complicating trade negotiations with the U.S.
Wyn Evans’ family has owned a plot in western Wales for generations, a bucolic expanse where 370 sheep and 80 cows feast on the verdant grasses of undulating hillsides.