Andrew Neil points main warning over new deal EU deal

Veteran broadcaster warns that settlement can be a ‘enormous win’ for Brussels

Andrew Neil

Andrew Neil issued a warning over the food and drinks take care of the EU (Picture: PA)

Andrew Neil has warned {that a} new take care of the EU on food and drinks is “massively retrograde” for the UK. The Authorities is negotiating the settlement with Brussels to cut back post-Brexit border checks as a part of Sir Keir Starmer’s “reset” of relations with the bloc.

However Mr Neil stated the pact can be a “enormous win” for the EU as a result of the UK must observe European meals requirements. The broadcaster wrote on X: “We already run a large commerce deficit with the EU on meals and agricultural merchandise. This deal will make that deficit even greater.

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“It would additionally place UK meals and agribusiness beneath EU guidelines, rules and ECJ court docket judgments as soon as extra, processes during which this time we can have no say.

“And it’ll undermine UK technological advances in agriculture, during which we have gotten world leaders, as a result of it returns such analysis to the lifeless of Brussels’ ‘prudential’ strategy, which regards all innovation as a danger except it may be confirmed in any other case.

“Massively retrograde for UK, enormous win for EU.”

He was responding to a submit by the Cupboard Workplace in regards to the new deal.

The submit stated: “As soon as finalised, our new UK-EU food and drinks deal will make it simpler for British consumers to purchase Spanish produce and cut back the boundaries to nice UK corporations promoting in Spain and the remainder of Europe.”

The PM stated: “We’re already aligned with the only market in some areas to drive down the costs of meals and power.

“We’re trusted companions. Deeper financial integration is in all of our pursuits. So we should take a look at the place we will transfer nearer to the only market in different sectors as effectively, the place that may work for each side.”