The Express, August 31, Catherine McBride
During his Conservative Party leadership campaign, Rishi Sunak has offered proposals for improving UK food self-sufficiency and suggested that he will make farmers more of a priority in trade deals.
And – in particular – criticised the UK Australia trade deal for letting down British farmers by encouraging cheaper imports of meat and other produce made in the UK.
His comments show that he does not understand the type and quantity of products that can be grown in the UK, the size of UK domestic demand, the nature of the recently-concluded Australian trade deal, our current agricultural trading arrangements with the EU, and possibly not even the point of international trade.
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