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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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US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
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