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New: Figures show US poultry lobbyists are ramping up donations ahead of trade talks with the UK

2020 election donations are piling up and set to dwarf previous years

Opposition MPs say HMG is preparing to open up UK markets to lower-standard US chicken businessinsider.com/brexit-chlorin…
Both the US National Chicken Council and American Farm Bureau Federation told me they wanted to the UK to drop its "protectionism" and accept US poultry after Brexit

The British Poultry Council's Richard Griffiths said this would be "unacceptable"

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Reacting to the figures, Labour's @BarryGardiner said "US lobbyists are trying to foist the meat from diseased chickens on our children"

@Bill_Esterson said a trade deal including US poultry will be "at the expense of our industry and our consumers" businessinsider.com/brexit-chlorin…
@BarryGardiner @Bill_Esterson The figures follow news that Johnson binned Theresa May's commitment to maintaining a "level playing field" with the EU, as reported by @joncstone & others

HMG spox: "The government has been clear that we have no plans to reduce any of our standards"
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NEW: Some info on the Brexit deal courtesy of a senior U.K. Gov official

They say the EU’s biggest concession is letting NI stay in the U.K. customs territory

The biggest U.K. concession: accepting high alignment between NI and EU
The key difference between (1) May’s PD and (2) Johnson’s PD, according to the senior UK Gov official

(1) was based on high alignment and pointed to UK-EU customs “assimilation” after Brexit

(2) more regulatory divergence, UK will stay in its own customs territory
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