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It will be much harder for the UK to seek a US trade deal with a Trump administration that's more focused on trade wars."
US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi says that the prospect of a post-Brexit US-UK trade deal rests on maintaining the Good Friday Agreement.
"opening our ports, shelves & fridges to food which would be illegal to produce here would not only be morally bankrupt..." - Minette Batters, NFU
26/02/2020
"To sign up to a trade deal which results in opening our ports, shelves & fridges to food which would be illegal to produce here would not only be morally bankrupt, it would be the work of the insane."
US Congressman @RepBrendanBoyle tells #newsnight
Philip Hammond - Tariff free trade deals would only contribute a tiny amount to our GDP... so we must quash "this myth that third country trade deals will solve all our problems"
'Desperate' UK is 'delusional' to expect good trade deal with US, says ex-Obama advisor ahead of Raab tour
06/08/2019
"Desperate" Britain is "delusional" to expect a favourable trade deal with the US, an ex-Obama advisor has warned, as Dominic Raab seeks to "fire up" the UK's trade relationship with North America.
'Get Brexit done is the biggest delusion of all' - Michael Heseltine launches scathing attack on Boris Johnson.
'there will be no US-UK trade deal - period' if the UK government moves forward with the Internal Market Bill - Congressman Brendan Boyle [1 min]
09/11/2020
“This is a clear red line for us.” / Congressman Brendan Boyle says “there will be no US-UK trade deal - period” if the UK government moves forward with the Internal Market Bill.
'What were they thinking?': No US-UK trade deal if Good Friday Agreement is broken, threatens Pelosi
11/09/2020
Nancy Pelosi has warned the UK there will be "absolutely no chance" of a trade deal with Washington passing Congress should the government override the Brexit withdrawal agreement signed by Boris Johnson.
The EU has opposed brutal animal welfare and rampant tech monopolies. Post-Brexit Britain will be exposed to both.
The most important piece of farming legislation to come before parliament in decades included an amendment tabled by Neil Parish, Conservative MP for Tiverton and Honiton, which sought to protect UK farmers from low-standard food imports.
The grocer also promised to avoid America’s hormone-injected beef and to only sell British produce.
Lobbyists for the American meat industry have urged the US government to demand Britain drop antibiotics restrictions and the ban on ractopamine-fed pork as part of any post-Brexit trade deal.
Animal welfare faces ‘clear and present danger’ from post-Brexit trade deals, study warns
28/07/2022
Claim that UK farming at risk if ‘soft’ approach pursued with countries with ‘less qualms’ about quality.
A swift transatlantic FTA was repeatedly trumpeted by Leave campaigners, including Mr Johnson, as the biggest prize from Brexit.
The lucrative UK/US trade deal is dead - so will it Liz Truss now press ahead with ripping up parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol?
WHEN asked whether US food standards would ever be accepted in post-Brexit Britain, the unequivocal response from Cabinet Minister Michael Gove was “over my dead body”.
Luxury carmaker Bentley (VOWG_p.DE) said free trade with Europe not the United States was its priority as Britain negotiates its new relationship with the European Union...
The US president is expected to tell Johnson to solve the Northern Ireland impasse in a pre-G7 meeting, reports suggest.
PM urged to recognise pursuit of no-deal Brexit would be regarded as serious error by US.
In a move rarely seen between allies, Washington issued London with a demarche: a formal diplomatic reprimand usually reserved for adversaries.
Boost to UK economy from US trade deal could be 450 times smaller than loss from no-deal Brexit, government analysis finds
03/03/2020
Official document puts likely benefits of free trade agreement with Donald Trump at below 0.2 per cent of GDP – and possibly as little as 0.02 per cent.
Boris Johnson accused of eyeing post-Brexit US trade deal by ripping out food safeguards imposed by parliament
26/10/2019
‘This is clearly an attempt to make it harder for the public and parliament to ensure protections are not traded away’
Boris Johnson administration ‘frantically repositioning’ itself for Biden presidency, claims George Osborne
26/10/2020
Democrat candidate does not feel ‘particularly warm’ towards Brexiteers, says former chancellor.
The NHS is at critical risk as Boris Johnson wields the national treasure as bait in trade talks with the US, Labour claims.