Heather Anderson

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COMMENT There’s only one hour left to respond to UK power grab plans

WE now have very little time to respond to the four-week consultation on the UK Internal Market white paper. This speedily cobbled together bill fundamentally breeches the devolution settlement. There are no barriers to trade within the UK at present, so the haste with which this bill is being pushed through can only suggest one thing: it gives Westminster the power it needs to lower standards and open up the whole of the UK to a trade deal with the current, hopefully outgoing, US administration.

We will be adding dead lambs to the list of Brexit stockpiles

LAST week Boris’s Brexit Batman, Gove, announced £500 million had been set aside to buy slaughtered lambs as part of the No Deal “planning”. Although we have predicted this for over 3 years, it appears that the UK Government have just worked out that No Deal means no market for UK lamb.