A UK farmer has criticised Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for "opening the floodgates" with the newly announced UK-US trade deal, despite government assurances that British food standards will be maintained.The deal, announced yesterday afternoon, has received mixed reactions from the farming community, with some seeing opportunities while others express serious concerns.READ THE FULL STORY HERE
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00:00are reacting to the deal with Gareth Wynne-Jones, who joins us live from Snowdonia.
00:04And Gareth, you're a farmer. We talk to you often on this programme.
00:07What are you making of this US-UK trade deal and what does it mean for you?
00:12Well, we haven't seen the devil in the detail yet, but it looks like he's sold our industry down the swanee again.
00:21It's disappointing, you know.
00:23We need to protect our motor industry, but we need to protect as well our farming industry.
00:32I've got a lot of friends out in the States.
00:34They are on massive scales out there and they can produce, you know, hundreds and thousands of tons of beef.
00:42And our beef sales are up at the moment, but this could be another nail in the agricultural coffin.
00:49And I don't think the Labour government or Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Steve Reid understand what they're doing.
00:58And, you know, I read one little piece this morning.
01:03We know we import about 101,000 cars into the USA, which is great.
01:09But anything that's imported over 100,000 will then up the tariff an astronomical amount, I think, 25%.
01:19So we're no better off, really, with the deal that they've done.
01:23The only thing is that they have done is to open the floodgates for beef to come into this country.
01:29The only positive I can see is hopefully we can sell some British lamb and British beef into the USA.
01:40Let's pray that we can do some kind of deal because I don't think the people that are running this country at the moment are doing the agricultural sector any favours.