Imminent Brexit breakthrough is still complicated politically
The current negotiations between the government and Brussels, the government and Conservative backbenchers, and the government and Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), are quite

UK organic market withstands pressures
Soil Association Certification has released its Organic Market Report 2023, which shows the UK organic market enjoying good growth in spite of the multiple present challenges, including the cost

Importers spark row with Defra over strawberry quota
It follows a story in The Grocer last week which revealed Egyptian imports would soon be hit with a 10% tariff due to an insufficient quotaThe government has been slammed for its “misleading and

Strikes add to importer woes
Industrial action made for a dismal December for UK businesses, with global traders worst hit due to ongoing high transport costs and post-Brexit woes, new data reveals. Strikes and related action

UK government has releases some details of post-Brexit subsidies for farmers
The UK government has released some details of its eagerly awaited post-Brexit farm subsidy scheme in England. Farming and environmental groups have broadly welcomed the new measures while

‘Clarify post-Brexit rules,’ Logistics UK urges government
Business group Logistics UK is urging government to prioritise the needs of the logistics industry, as Parliament continues to debate the Retained EU Law bill. Kate Jennings, the group’s policy

‘Brexit is making inflation worse for the UK’
Bank of England policymaker Catherine Mann has issued her opinions on the Brexit debate, blaming UK’s departure from the European Union for adding to inflation. Mann is a US economist who sits

UK fruit and vegetable growers' margins are tight post-Brexit
On 26 January, the future of post-Brexit agricultural policy in England became more clear with the official announcement of six new standards under its Sustainable Farming Incentive. While UK

The UK's double bill: crisis+Brexit
The Centre for European Reform (CER) has calculated that the country's economy is 5.5% smaller than it would have been without the collapse of cross-Channel trade, a shortage of Eastern European