Cameron gives no certainty on farm payments after Brexit
Speaking in the House of Commons this Monday, British prime minister David Cameron said he would press for continued farm payments when the next UK government exits the EU.
File photo: Prime Minister David Cameron meeting farmers during a visit to Northern Ireland in the runup to the EU membership referendum. Picture: Cliff Donaldson
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“I can say what I said during the campaign, which is I want a living working countryside and continue to support farmers,” Cameron said. “This was guaranteed in the EU through payments. These payments will continue until we leave the EU.”
On Friday, Cameron said he would resign in the coming months. The process to appoint a new Conservative Party leader will begin this week. A new prime minister will be in charge of negotiating the UK’s exit
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“I will be pressing for payments and support from the government,” Cameron told the Commons.
Johnson for "free trade"
Pro-Brexit Conservative MP Boris Johnson stated in his column in The Telegraph that the UK's future relationship with the EU should be based on "free trade".
As reported by the Irish Farmers Journal on Friday, it remains unclear how the UK could retain the benefit of free trade with the EU while exiting the European political and regulatory framework.
Meanwhile, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Charlie Flanagan has rejected calls for a border poll.
“I believe that our immediate strategy should be to sit down with the British government and with the Northern Ireland Executive and to urgently discuss how collectively we are together going to protect the gains of the last decades and to prevent the worst effects of a UK departure from the EU," he said.
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“I can say what I said during the campaign, which is I want a living working countryside and continue to support farmers,” Cameron said. “This was guaranteed in the EU through payments. These payments will continue until we leave the EU.”
On Friday, Cameron said he would resign in the coming months. The process to appoint a new Conservative Party leader will begin this week. A new prime minister will be in charge of negotiating the UK’s exit
“I will be pressing for payments and support from the government,” Cameron told the Commons.
Johnson for "free trade"
Pro-Brexit Conservative MP Boris Johnson stated in his column in The Telegraph that the UK's future relationship with the EU should be based on "free trade".
As reported by the Irish Farmers Journal on Friday, it remains unclear how the UK could retain the benefit of free trade with the EU while exiting the European political and regulatory framework.
Meanwhile, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Charlie Flanagan has rejected calls for a border poll.
“I believe that our immediate strategy should be to sit down with the British government and with the Northern Ireland Executive and to urgently discuss how collectively we are together going to protect the gains of the last decades and to prevent the worst effects of a UK departure from the EU," he said.
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