Is Sir Keir Starmer QC’s Labour saying the Red Wall wants to eat rat hair and faeces, insects, maggots and mould? Is let them eat crap part of Labour’s vision of a Global Britain? Or are they lying about wanting to secure a US/UK FTA?

The ramblings of a former DWP Civil Servant ...

“A UK Labour government would aim to strike a trade deal with the United States.

In an interview with POLITICO, new Shadow International Trade Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said the promise of a free-trade agreement with Washington, a key pledge of Brexiteers, must be delivered.

“The US trade deal is something that has been promised to the British people, and the government should deliver it,” the opposition frontbencher said.”

• A post-Brexit trade deal with the US could mean UK consumers being forced to accept rodent hairs, maggots and animal faeces in their food under US regulations likely to be imposed as part of any post-Brexit trade deal with Donald Trump.
• US regulations set out how many rat hairs or maggots are allowed to be included in common food products.
• No such limits are allowed under UK and EU law.
• Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Trade Minister told Business Insider that UK consumers…

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