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Government wants new agri-food agreement with EU

“But do I hope that an SPS agreement, an ambitious SPS agreement, is going to ease the situation in terms of GB/NI trade? Absolutely, yes.”

An SPS agreement relates to food safety and animal and plant health.

Labour has already said it will seek a new agreement which allows retail agri-food goods, plants, seed potatoes and other items to be traded between the UK and EU with the aim to “eliminate most border checks created by the Tory Brexit deal”.

It is hoped such a deal could at a stroke sweep away the most obvious physical impacts of the post-Brexit Irish Sea border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

In simple terms, if a deal ends checks on goods moving from Calais to Dover then checks will also end from Cairnryan to Belfast.


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