LONDON: The Irish Farmers’ Association believes Ireland’s farming and food sector is under threat by the UK’s latest Brexit direction.Its president Joe Healy said he is extremely concerned by the direction that the UK has set out in recent days because it will make a “hard border inevitable and would see the UK pursuing a cheap food policy in new trade deals with countries that would damage Ireland’s farming and food sector”.
He said: “They are trying to rerun the ideas they put forward last August of a customs partnership or a highly streamlined customs arrangement.
“It is impossible to see either of these proposals working in the crucial farming and food sector, if the UK does not remain fully aligned with the rules of the single market and customs union.“The UK cannot be allowed to walk away from its commitment in the Joint Report of last December to avoid a hard border.”
