‘Farms Will Not be Able to Survive This’: Sword of Damocles Hanging Over Farmers Thanks to Brexit
02/06/2021
As the details of Boris Johnson’s trade deals are unveiled, these two farmers are pessimistic about the post-Brexit future of their industry.
£20bn UK-Norway trade deal implodes over British beef and cheese as crucial deadline passes
28/05/2021
A wide-ranging free trade pact between the UK and Norway will have to be pushed back as Norway’s coalition government failed to reach an agreement today.
The UK’s trade agreement with Australia led to British farmers and associations voicing concerns about unfair competition and a lowering of food standards.
Grace periods for implementing post-Brexit checks on goods going from Great Britain to Northern Ireland are at the centre of tensions between the EU and UK.
What happens if we have no deal?
15/10/2020
Mr Johnson told his cabinet this week that leaving the EU without a deal should hold “no fear” for Britain, but was he right?
A major feature of the 2016 Leave campaign was a refusal to define what, precisely, Brexit would mean.
Warning of ‘catastrophic’ no-deal Brexit impact on farmers, as minister suggests tariffs on agriculture will not be manageable
06/12/2020
NFU warns of ‘savage’ consequences of failure to secure free trade agreement with EU.
Brexit has "permanently damaged" the UK economy, former Bank of England policymaker Michael Saunders warned as London was deposed as Europe's biggest stock market.
Which? raises alarm after Boris Johnson dumped promised ban on chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef, to strike quickfire agreement with Donald Trump
UK-Norway trade deal close to collapsing as Christian-Democrats block pact to protect farmers from British beef and cheese
24/05/2021
A comprehensive free trade deal between the UK and Norway is at risk of collapsing as the Christian Democrat party fears such a pact would hit farmers in Scandinavia’s richest country too hard.
The UK's trade deal with New Zealand has been heavily criticised by Stormont's agriculture minister.
Tariffs will be cut to zero on 87% of imports to the UK as part of a temporary no-deal plan but prices of some imports including meat, shoes, underpants and cars will go up.
UK will be told to lift ban on hormone-treated beef to join key trade bloc, leaked memo suggests
08/02/2022
The UK will be told to lift its ban on hormone-treated beef to achieve its post-Brexit dream of joining a key trade bloc, a leaked government memo suggests.
Fears for farmers and anger over dropping of pledge to bind Australia to crucial climate temperature limit.
Charles Michel says British ‘face a dilemma’ over whether to lower regulatory standards.
Staff shortages see carcasses exported for processing and then reimported.
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’.
Negotiations between the UK and Canada on a post-Brexit trade deal have broken down after nearly two years, following a row over beef and cheese. / Canada has been pushing for the UK to relax a ban on hormone-treated beef, which its producers say in effect shuts them out of the British market.
Analysis comes as government expected to outline plans to mitigate price shock next week.
Sales to Germany, Spain and Italy all dropped by more than a third in the past year.
Consumers could face meat, fish, fruit and vegetable shortages and higher prices.
It is one of the starkest of all Brexit contradictions. The most strident supporters of the project want to leave the EU because it imposes demands upon the UK, but then also secure a trade deal with the US which would involve accepting a whole new set of obligations.
A former Tory minister has admitted a Brexit deal he backed at the time is "not actually a very good deal" and people are fuming.
To make Brexit happen, Boris needs to work with the Eurocrats he’s insulted. Fat chance they’ll help him now
08/08/2019
As our prime minister and the no-deal zealots of his cabinet revel in Brexit brinkmanship it is worth recalling the legal realities of what threatens to be our post Halloween world.
Otto English dissects the disadvantages that a free trade agreement between the two countries would bring to the UK.