Homegrown produce can prevent rise in food prices if Britain leaves EU with no deal, claims transport secretaryBritish farmers would need to grow more food to prevent a rise in food prices if Britain crashes out of the EU without a negotiated deal, a senior cabinet minister has said. Asked what would happen to food prices if there was no deal, he said farmers would “grow more here” and “we’ll buy more from around the world”. The shadow Brexit minister, Jenny Chapman, said: “This is yet another example of the Tories’ chaotic approach to the Brexit negotiations. “Rather than planning for no deal, ministers appear to be telling us to dig for no deal. “Since farmers’ exports will collapse if they are lumbered with massive WTO tariffs in the event of a no-deal Brexit, farmers could certainly end up with lots of spare produce they won’t be able to sell.”

Source: The Guardian October 15, 2017 17:11 UTC