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Millions of lambs could die needlessly as a result of Johnson's no-deal Brexit ‘carnage,’ Corbyn warns

MILLIONS of lambs could be needlessly slaughtered as a result of increased tariffs under Boris Johnson’s likely no-deal Brexit “carnage,” Jeremy Corbyn warned today.

The Labour leader visited a farm in Keswick, in the Lake District, to pledge to do “everything necessary” to stop a “reckless and unnecessary act” from happening on the current Brexit deadline of October 31.

Nearly 94 per cent of exported British lamb — the equivalent of more than four million lambs a year — is sold to the EU, according to landowners’ association the National Farmers Union (NFU), which claims that British farmers could face an EU tariff of 46 per cent on lamb as a result of a no-deal Brexit.

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