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"This [the UK] is a country that grew successful and prosperous on free trade on exporting around the world.”
Mostly bullets; some opium.
Jokes aside, it's always confused me that food origins wasn't a bigger part of the Brexit debate. If opening up trade deals with countries around the world, while creating friction in trade with the EU, means that we're getting our food from further afield, isn't that a bad thing, both for food security and for the environment? I mean, we probably already eat quite a lot of New Zealand lamb and Brazilian beef, but I can't think of a reason why we want to exacerbate that sort of import.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/19/liz-truss-defends-uk-plans-for-post-brexit-trade-deal-with-australia