"Name 1 good export from the UK !" / "It's hard. Black pudding? Spice Girl CDs? It's more about what we can now sell to them."

The Coalition's internal climate war risks damaging the economy after Europe declared it would reject a $15 billion trade deal with Australia unless the Morrison government keeps its pledge to cut pollution under the Paris accord.

Claim that UK farming at risk if ‘soft’ approach pursued with countries with ‘less qualms’ about quality.

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.

Country’s claim that meat exports are suffering wins support from 14 countries.

THE UK Government has been accused of treating Scotland’s farmers as “expendable” as the trade deal with Australia comes into effect.

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.

Farmers fear that deal will mean they risk being undercut by cheap imports made to lower animal welfare standards.

Agreement would undermine major overhaul of animal-welfare laws announced to fanfare last week, campaigners say.

One of Australia’s supposed key demands for a free trade deal with the UK – their agreeing to buy our hormone-treated beef – is “almost impossible” for the UK to agree to, according to a new report by an anti-Brexit think tank.

The tenth round of Australia – European Union Free Trade Agreement (Australia -EU FTA) negotiations took place virtually from 9 – 19 March. Through more than 60 video conferences, we made substantive progress on a range of issues across the FTA and engaged on our respective market access interests.

Australia and the European Union (EU) launched negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) on 18 June 2018. As a bloc, the EU is Australia's second largest trading partner, third largest export destination, and second largest services export market. The EU was Australia's largest source of foreign investment in 2018.

Investigation finds areas of cleared land in Queensland likely to be habitats for threatened species.

Former trade negotiator Dmitry Grozoubinski celebrates the "virtually unprecedented result" for Australia in the trade deal with the UK, telling James O'Brien "we've not heard" any benefits for Brits.

If you don't laugh, you'll cry. The anchors on Channel 9 news have been having a good giggle at Brexit this week.

Talk at this week’s NFU conference will be alive with financial, labour and competition concerns.

The Australian Trade Minister Steven Ciobo confirms to MEPs that a trade deal with the EU will be prioritised over one with the UK.

Ian Blackford suggested that the UK's proposed trade deal with Australia would send 'farmers down under'.

THE SNP have slammed Boris Johnson for “betraying” Scottish farmers over plans to go ahead with a tariff-free trade deal with Australia.

The Chancellor and Prime Minister need a plan to counter figures showing lower growth after the hit to EU trade.

Boris Johnson has laughed off claims that he's planning “planning to throw our farmers and crofters under the Brexit bus” over trade negotiations with Australia.

'Obviously if we can’t then we will have the very good option also of an Australian-style arrangement,' says PM.

Boris Johnson has been warned his prospective free trade deal with Australia could “decimate” the British farming industry, as opposition parties unite against a zero-tariff agreement.

Phil Hogan notes the EU does not have a deal with Australia.

Boris Johnson’s free trade deal with Australia could cause devastation on a scale with the Highland Clearances, a former Scottish Government minister has claimed.

In what follows, a group of leading social scientists explore these themes, explaining what has happened in the past, the situation the UK finds itself in now, and the issues that might confront us going forward. The collection is intended as a guide to the big questions confronting the country in the years to come.

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.

Increasingly, doing business with China involves a certain loss of sovereign power. / No matter how appealing a trade deal between Britain and China, it comes with costs. For a start, greater trade with China invariably means larger trade deficits.

The comments, from the acting Australian PM, will send shivers down the spine of the British farming community.

BRITONS are turning to Queensland to escape the Brexit blues, with new figures showing a spike in the number of UK property seekers searching for a piece of paradise in the sunshine state.

Continuing the letter to Jacob Rees-Mogg, reminding him – he seems to need reminding – of the many new opportunities created by Brexit.

George Eustice lambasts Liz Truss for arbitrarily ‘setting the clock against us’ and calls on top civil servant to quit.

The ruling Conservatives’ efforts to big up their paltry free trade deals with Australia and New Zealand took something of a comic turn this week, with the revelation that the UK Government was shipping signed copies of The Beano to the two countries.

It comes after a former environment secretary criticised the treatment of farmers in the UK-Australia trade pact.

Ministers criticised for failing to fight for ‘ambitious’ commitments to cut CO2 emissions.

Research into similar exercises in other countries has shown they lead to an exodus of talent and a loss of influence with key partners.

Cross-party international trade committee says agreement unlikely to be detectable at supermarket tills.

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen pointed out that even Australia wants a better trading relationship with the bloc than the one it currently has.

Prime minister had claimed ‘Australia-style’ Brexit could be an option.

Brussels and Delhi tipped to open talks on free trade agreement within days – while UK admits ‘shared intent to begin work’ only.

The EU has leapt ahead of the UK in the pursuit of free trade deals with Australia and New Zealand after member states gave the green light for talks to start within weeks.

The EU has in place, or is negotiating, trade agreements with countries and regions around the world.

The former cabinet member, now a backbencher, admits what many suspected about the post-Brexit sunlit uplands: they were over-promised. / George Eustice, former Environment Secretary, yesterday broke ranks with the government line on the success in forging new trade deals post-Brexit. He portrayed the much lauded flagship deal with Australia as ‘not very good’.

Boris Johnson has been warned that his prospective trade deal with Australia could spell “a slow painful death” for Britain’s beef farming industry, after one of Australia’s biggest producers said a zero-tariff agreement could increase exports to the UK tenfold.

Labour says import quotas are so high they are meaningless and raises concerns about animal welfare

"I do worry that people are starting to imagine that a trade deal with Australia is somehow a substitute for being on the doorstep of a market with 500 million people, it's not" says former Australian PM Julia Gillard.

"The reality is that half of your trade goes to the EU. Britain’s trade with Australia is a very small percentage.”

Tory former Environment Secretary says UK ‘gave away far too much for far too little in return’.

A FOUR-NATIONS fightback against Boris Johnson’s proposed trade deal with Australia is to be hammered out next week.

George Eustice pulls no punches as he lays into the former prime minister in parliament, lambasting Ms Truss's achievements as international trade secretary.

How much longer can the United Kingdom and the United States continue to be part of the Five Eyes alliance under their current governments?

FORGET visas, cheap Europe trips and free trade. There is one fear that dwarfs all others for Australia, and it’s looking more likely as Brexit turns sour. / GLOBAL security, trade and the stability of the international system could take a body blow if Britain crashes out of the European Union (EU) in a bitter “no deal” scenario.

Trade committee chair Angus Brendan MacNeil said MPs had been ‘consistently hindered’ in attempts to examine the deal.

Activists file formal complaint alleging government has breached international law in signing deal.

‘Your boss has conceded the whole kingdom’, Australian negotiator said to have told Liz Truss.

As the UK-Australia trade deal comes into force, those close to the negotiations reflect on their dramatic — and farcical — climax.

'It is hard to predict how full Brexit would play out, because this scale of multiple simultaneous renegotiations of global trade agreements is unprecedented – and no country has ever left the EU. It certainly can’t be assumed that Britain is bound to get quick and good deals because it is a large economy.'

Ian Blackford has claimed the proposed trade deal with Australia could see farmers and families “driven off the land”.

Kevin Rudd (former Australian PM) - The idea the U.K. could do a quick FTA with India post #brexit is “the biggest bucket of bollocks” I've heard from the brexiteers so far.

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.

Dave Sharma says ‘megaphone diplomacy’ was behind British government suggesting Dan Tehan was a novice.

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.

THE UK Government failed to heed warnings over the damage Brexit would do to Scotland’s food and farming sectors, despite “clearly being aware of the consequences”, a Scottish minister has said.

Australia’s ABC News said the comments were greeted “with a mixture of disbelief and laughter” in Canberra.

Labour has warned Liz Truss against signing a post-Brexit trade deal with Australia before there is sufficient parliamentary scrutiny.

A former Australian prime minister has warned the UK to be "careful what you wish for" when it comes to EU trade.

Michael McCormack (acting Australian PM) - 'The big winners, in the UK-Australian trade deal, are Australian producers, Australian farmers, indeed Australia full stop... I'm not worried about the Welsh, Scottish & NI beef producers... I want what's best for Australian producers.'

The NFU president has been dismayed by the government’s post-Brexit deals, but has vowed to fight on for British producers

Agreement will clear parliament on Wednesday under obscure behind-closed-doors process – with no debate, despite a pledge.

The Morrison government has baulked at expanding a new post-Brexit trade pact to include visa-free work and travel between Australia and the United Kingdom, arguing any special deal that circumvented existing immigration caps could be deeply unpopular in both countries.

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.

A zero tariff, zero quota trade deal between the UK and Australia would damage Northern Ireland’s beef and sheep trade, the new DUP leader has warned.

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.

Brexit party leader labels Duke of Sussex ‘terrifying’ while disparaging Queen Mother in Sydney CPAC speech.

Open letter from group representing 4m western firms outlines ‘grave concerns’.

Goods dispatched in coming days may not arrive until after 29 March deadline.

Liz Truss insists ‘British farmers have absolutely nothing to fear from this deal at all’

A UK-Australia trade deal would be the “final nail in the coffin" for Scottish crofters, Ian Blackford has said.

THE UK is in danger of a “race to the bottom” with a controversial post-Brexit trade deal with Australia, which could result in a boost to the SNP, according to an expert.

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.

Britain's trade agreement with Japan - the first major such deal announced after Brexit - has been branded a failure as new figures show exports have DROPPED.

So is there a business case for CANZUK as a primary relationship for any of these four countries? Let’s look at where our potential partners currently sell goods and services.

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.

In the UK it costs nearly twice as much as in France to secure a skilled worker visa for an overseas scientist. It costs roughly ten times as much as in Australia, and fifty times as much as in South Korea. The numbers are from the Royal Society, the UK’s leading scientists’ association, which is worried that what it calls a “punitive tax on talent”...

Small print – revealed by Canberra, but suppressed in London – reveals pledge to protect farmers for 15 years has been dropped.

World View: Suggestion that likes of US, Australia offer alternative to EU is fantasy. / If the success of a political idea turns on its power to instil hope or optimism in its adherents, then, in its early years, Brexit was a colossal failure.

Having cut Britain adrift of Europe, Brexiters are indulging in an old fantasy about a new national role in the world—as the hub of a far-flung Anglosphere.

Australians have had their fair share of political turbulence in recent years but, as Nick D Miller explains in a new book ,'Do They Mean Us?', many Down Under simply cannot understand Britain's act of self-sabotage.

The parliamentary hopeful admits to having only ‘passed through’ the constituency before standing to be its MP

The Australian and UK governments are at odds over why key climate targets were stripped out of a future trade deal.

Boris Johnson’s government is waging a war of words not against the EU but the British people.

'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.

Otto English dissects the disadvantages that a free trade agreement between the two countries would bring to the UK.

Australians want the UK to do well. But there’s no way free trade with us or others can make up for the hit of leaving the EU.

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.

Australian citizens could get freedom of movement rights denied to EU nationals after Brexit, international trade secretary Liz Truss has suggested.

TORY ministers caved in to Australian ministers’ climate demands during talks on a post-Brexit trade deal, according to a leaked government email.

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.

‘It gives the Australians the ability to say, ‘we’ll dig in – here are our terms, but we’re not going to budge’.

'For Britain’s economic self-interest, as well as the wider political interests of the western community of nations, Britain should remain in the EU', Kevin Rudd argues

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.

Fears for farmers and anger over dropping of pledge to bind Australia to crucial climate temperature limit.

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.

Select committee says ministers want to rush through deal allowing food imports that fall below UK environmental standards.

Deals to ensure UK can go on trading with non-EU countries after Brexit transition must be laid before parliament by Wednesday.

Letter from detainees urges MPs not to back nationality and borders bill to be debated in parliament this week.

Malcolm Turnbull said a UK trade deal with Australia would not replace the benefits of being inside the world's largest trading bloc.

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.

Data obtained by POLITICO shows economic toll on farmers known before key post-Brexit trade talks began.

European commission chief picks out contradictions in UK approach to post-Brexit deal.

With negotiations between the UK and the European Union (EU) - over a trade agreement - going down to the wire, the possibility of there being no deal is being talked about.

The UK’s trade agreement with Australia led to British farmers and associations voicing concerns about unfair competition and a lowering of food standards.

How Britain resolves — or fails to resolve — Brexit and the terms of its divorce from Europe, is of more than passing interest to Australia.

Allies of UK trade secretary Liz Truss accused of launching an ‘unprovoked attack’ on Dan Tehan on the eve of their meeting.

Two handpicked consignments of UK goods have been sent to Australia and New Zealand to mark new post-Brexit agreements.

Ellie Newis reviews two of the flagship free trade agreements that were supposed to reignite the UK economy.

Back in those pre-war, pre-Covid and pre-permacrisis halcyon days of early 2020, the world was the UK food sector’s oyster in terms of post-Brexit trading opportunities.