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Now the UK can avoid chlorinated chicken: Joe Biden ‘to break Donald Trump’s business template after Brexit and remove demands that the UK lower its food standards’
- Sources said Biden will walk away from Trump’s plan for a boutique deal
- Transpacific trade association where high food standards would be maintained
- It would prevent Boris Johnson’s showdown with Washington over UK food producers
Joe Biden will break Donald Trump’s post-Brexit business model and abandon demands that the UK lower its food standards, diplomatic sources said.
They claim that Biden will allay concerns that Britain will be forced to accept substandard American foods, such as chlorinated chicken, as the price of a lucrative trade deal with Washington.
Sources said the president-elect will back away from Trump’s plan for a boutique deal with the UK in favor of a multilateral approach, which could involve a trans-Pacific trade partnership where high food standards would be maintained.
Joe Biden will break Donald Trump’s trade template after Brexit and abandon demands that the UK lower its food standards, diplomatic sources said.
That would save Boris Johnson from a potential showdown with Washington over protecting UK food producers or sealing a trade deal.
Johnson has faced growing ire from chefs, farmers and his own MPs over fears that the UK’s traditionally high food standards could be scrapped during trade talks with Trump.
The problem, symbolized by the prospect of hormone-fed beef and chlorinated poultry showing up on supermarket shelves, has been picked up by celebrities like Jamie Oliver, who endorsed The Mail’s Save Our Family Farms campaign. on Sunday to protect them from cheap food. Imports
That would save Boris Johnson from a potential showdown with Washington over protecting UK food producers or sealing a trade deal.
In a major victory for that campaign, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss and George Eustice, the Environment Secretary, gave in to pressure last weekend and agreed to bolster an advisory commission to give farmers “a stronger voice. in UK trade policy. “
Diplomatic sources now suggest that Biden may seek to reverse Trump’s decision to withdraw from the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade network that includes Japan, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
They say the vast network, now called the Comprehensive Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and which the UK is seeking to join, stipulates high food standards.
A source said: “That potentially helps the UK and saves Boris from having to make an unpleasant decision: win a big post-Brexit trade deal or deliver on the Conservative manifesto promise that they won’t sell our farms and their world-class food “.
National Farmers Union president Minette Batters said Biden’s victory could also help boost sustainable food production globally.
She said: ‘It will give hope to those who seek global leadership in addressing climate change. Covid has highlighted the need to re-evaluate our food system and push for higher standards. “
