Sep 12, 2019 | Brexit, News
The UK Trade Policy Observatory (UK TPO) is warning that the UK public may face the prospect of watered-down food regulations after Brexit with Parliament having little say . New analysis by legal experts at the University of Sussex-based UK TPO warns that stringent...
Sep 2, 2019 | Brexit, News, Retailing
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has responded strongly to Michael Gove’s claims on The Andrew Marr Show* that a no deal Brexit would not result in any food shortages. A spokesman for BRC said: “It is categorically untrue that the supply of fresh food will be...
Sep 2, 2019 | Brexit, News
Former Prime Minster Gordon Brown has backed calls by GMB, the union for food workers, food charity Hope Not Hate and the alliance for better food and farming Sustain, to demand Boris Johnson comes clean on the potentially disastrous risks a no deal Brexit will have...
Aug 29, 2019 | Brexit, News
The UK Government has been urged to scrap its proposed tariff schedule and pursue a post-Brexit approach to international trade that acts in the best interests of Scottish food and farming. That call takes on greater urgency following the announcement on plans to...
Aug 28, 2019 | Brexit, News, Retailing
The announcement that discounter Lidl is expecting UK suppliers to meet the cost of any EU tariffs on products moving from the UK into Ireland as a consequence of a no-deal Brexit should act as a warning for FMCG suppliers to prepare for a new round of cost price...
Aug 22, 2019 | Brexit, News
A senior executive at a major food retailer has told the BBC it is considering introducing rationing. The aim appears to be to prevent firms that have not made their own no-deal Brexit plan from using food retailers as wholesalers, which it says has happened in the...
