Trump tells May to abandon 'unwarranted' food standards for Brexit trade deal

[Borderer]

4. Self awareness fail...

"Mr Johnson, however, described warnings over US farming practices as "inflammatory and misleading" smears from "people with their own protectionist agenda"."

As opposed to the orange menace's plan to declare imported cars a national security threat?

Irrespective of the rights and wrongs of chlorinated chicken this issue highlights the dishonesty of the Brexiteers who claimed we could have our cake and eat it, by trading freely with both the EU and also everyone else. Do we accept US meat in order to get a trade deal and thus risk having our own meat exports to Europe curtailed, or do we refuse and not get a better trade deal with the US?

Downing Street's position that the UK will not be lowering its food standards has nothing to do with food safety or animal welfare and everything to do with not being able to risk trade barriers with the EU. There are plenty of Conservative MPs ready to shill for agribusiness who would happily abolish our "red tape" on such matters...