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1/ Reminder: Economists calculate even a wildly ambitious US FTA will have at most a marginal impact on the UK economy.
Letting securing an FTA shape the UK's policies on animal welfare, health or just about anything else is to get the relative importance ass-backward.
Letting securing an FTA shape the UK's policies on animal welfare, health or just about anything else is to get the relative importance ass-backward.
2/ If, after careful consideration, the UK government believes EU regulations or standards have been overcautious or unduly protectionist, is willing to accept the implications of deviation and is further willing to bind any changes in an FTA with the US... Great! Sign away!
3/ However to come at a conversation about something as important as the UK's approach to product safety and animal welfare through the politically charged lens of "will this get a US FTA across the line" is to abdicate leadership in favor of press releases. /end
