Nick Thomas-Symonds will today use a speech to confirm the Government’s ambition to finalise an agrifood deal within 18 months after Sir Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agreed headline terms in May.
New research will also be published by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) revealing the cost British businesses face when trying to export food and drink to the EU under the current arrangements as the minister builds the case for following Brussels law.
While extra costs – such as employers national insurance – from the Budget have been partly blamed on the rise, the boss of Morrisons said in May that the post-Brexit deal with the EU would help reduce prices.
Thomas-Symonds will say small and medium-sized firms in particular “lack the capacity” to deal with the red tape necessitated by Brexit, putting them at a “competitive disadvantage” to bigger firms.
The UK has also axed planned incoming border checks on EU fruit and veg, and meat, in anticipation of the deal.
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But Liberal Democrat Europe spokesman James MacCleary said the UK should instead negotiate a customs union with the EU to “transform our economic relationship with Europe”.
“Adding insult to injury, the Government sold its recent talks as a done deal only to now turn around and admit a finalised agreement could be years away.
Thomas-Symonds will meanwhile argue that Nigel Farage’s commitment to reverse the agrifood deal if Reform wins the next election means he would harm British consumers and businesses and bring about a return to lorries stuck in 16-hour queues carrying rotting food.
“Nigel Farage wants Britain to fail. His model of politics feeds on it, offering the easy answers, dividing communities and stoking anger.”
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“Keir Starmer is dragging us back into Brussels’ arms, and looking to once again make this country a rule taker rather than a rule maker, having sold off our fishing communities in the process.
Reform has been asked to comment.
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