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Food prices will increase if there is not a deal, a minister has admitted, as he suggested there could be an increase of 1 to 2 per cent.
George Eustice acknowledged that there will be "some impact" on food prices if the UK fails to get a trade deal with the EU, despite ministers having previously promised that food would be cheaper for British shoppers.
The Environment Secretary said: “Obviously if we don't have a trade agreement with the EU we will be applying tariffs to some of those imports and that's likely to mean that in the short term there would be a small, modest increase in food prices.”
During the Vote Leave campaign one of its manifesto pledges was that Brexit would make food cheaper. However Mr Eustice conceded that food items such as pork and beef were likely to see price rises
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...r-admits-says/
Strange it didn't say this on the side of the bus...
Maybe we'll become a nation of vegetarians. Some good may come from Brexit after all
