{"id":575643,"date":"2025-11-17T06:40:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/575643\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T06:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:40:34","slug":"eu-deal-threatens-to-wrap-uk-in-red-tape-and-cost-billions-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/575643\/","title":{"rendered":"EU deal threatens to wrap UK in red tape and cost ‘billions’ | Politics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain risks shredding the benefits of Brexit<\/a> if talks starting with the European Union<\/a> next week lock the UK back in Brussels\u2019 orbit, the Government has been warned. Labour<\/a> ministers and the EU will seek to strike deals on food standards and carbon trading, with Brexiteers warning the UK is in danger of giving away \u201ccompetitive advantages\u201d and could be forced to make multi-billion<\/a> pound payments to EU funds.<\/p>\n

Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice<\/a> said: \u201cThe whole point of Brexit<\/a> was to embrace competition, strike our own trade deals, and make decisions based solely on what is best for Britain. Further aligning with the EU only ties us to foreign interests and undermines our independence.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny agreement must ensure we retain our competitive advantages and that we do not pay into the EU coffers. Not that we have any confidence in this Labour government, packed with Remainers, to ever distance itself from the orbit of Brussels.”<\/p>\n

Shadow Business and Trade Secretary Andrew Griffith said the \u201clast thing the UK economy needs is to shackle itself back into Brussels red tape\u201d. He fears the UK will end up paying \u201cbillions more in taxpayers\u2019 money\u201d to Brussels.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cKeir Starmer<\/a> hates Brexit and that\u2019s why he\u2019s intent on taking us closer to the EU.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Longworth, a former director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce, who chairs the Independent Business Network, warned: \u201cThe EU will always rinse us for money because the politics of desperation put us in a weak position. Our leaders need to wise up and use Brexit freedom to put Britain first, cut EU red tape, trade with the world outside the sinking ship of Brussels bureaucracy and boost technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, trade expert Shanker Singham warned it is \u201cfolly for the UK to prioritise the relatively small gains from eliminating trade friction over the much larger gains of improving one’s own regulatory framework\u201d.<\/p>\n

Cautioning against \u201csacrificing the full effect of an independent trade policy and regulatory reform for very small trade friction gains,\u201d he said: \u201cThe result will be to further compound the stagflation the UK is now flirting with.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Nick Thomas-Symonds, Britain\u2019s minister for European Union relations, welcomed the start of official talks.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThis is welcome progress \u2013 we can now start formal talks on deals that will help keep food costs down and slash red tape. We are delivering on the commitments made to British businesses and the public at the historic UK-EU summit in May.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese agreements will add nearly \u00a39billion to the UK economy, supporting British jobs and putting more money in people\u2019s pockets.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Government claims a \u201csanitary and phytosanitary\u201d agreement could boost the economy by up to \u00a35.1billion a year by increasing agricultural exports to the EU by 16%.<\/p>\n

It says a parallel agreement so British businesses do not have to pay the EU\u2019s carbon border tax could add up to \u00a33.8 billion a year to the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain risks shredding the benefits of Brexit if talks starting with the European Union next week lock the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,5322,748,1700,2000,20728,299,5187,1699,4884,80533,2916,16,10051,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-575643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-brexit-news","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-eu-negotiations","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-regulatory-framework","19":"tag-trade-deals","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-uk-economy","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115563673989125318","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}