They really haven’t. They have opened up the ability to sell their seafood to Europe in a much less restricted way. It’s not perfect. The original shafting was in the 1970s, and Boris unshafted them … (View Post)

All things being equal, the removal of SPS should reduce food bills modestly. (View Post)

There were absolutely issues with FoM, relating to benefits eligibility, and the sheer scale was disruptive to many communities. For me this was outweighed by the significant uptick in smarts and ene… (View Post)

This looks like a v good deal. Britain refused to link the indefinite removal of SPS (which has been a disaster for food exports, and ESPECIALLY seafood) to indefinite extension of Boris’s fishing de… (View Post)

Not really. I was annoyed by claims yesterday that Britain would need to buckle on the SPS-Fishing link. In the end, it hasn’t. Some of the smaller detail leaking out - like the Home Office access to… (View Post)