Britain’s farmers and carmakers will be protected under a new post-Brexit trade regime that will result in 60% of goods coming into the country tariff-free from the start of next year, the government has announced.
Bullshit. We know that promises butter no carrots.
Well unless we are all going to be driving a few basic models of car this just means your car and its repair parts got 10% more expensive. And most of these tariffs are just being 'cut' to the levels we see under existing trade agreements today without any reciprocity!
Cars produced in the UK will have a 10% duty rate entering the EU & vice versa. Under the EU/JPN trade deal it's going to be 0%. Does that not help make UK car production uncompetitive? Or do we still need to see the content of that letter to Nissan?
Really? Not once retaliatory tariffs are imposed on UK car exports (c80% of total UK car production), making those exports uncompetitive. And of course, any non-tariff barriers that increase production costs will further undermine UK based manufacturers.
This is the farming industry Tim Leunig reckons we don't need, right? 🤔
Tories concentrate on the story, the spin rather than reality.
Interesting article until I reached the last sentence where nuts and ‘blots’ were mentioned. I expect this sort of typo in my local rag, not the grauniad 🙄
If it's anything like the 'protective ring' they 'threw around' care homes, we're bloody well f***ed.
Twisted logic? Good to know the government’s priorities!
There’s a plan?
NHS?