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But Mr Neil said the pact would be a “huge win” for the EU because the UK will have to follow European food standards. The broadcaster wrote on X: “We already run a massive trade deficit with the EU on food and agricultural products. This deal will make that deficit even bigger.

“It will also place UK food and agribusiness under EU rules, regulations and ECJ court judgments once more, processes in which this time we will have no say.

“And it will undermine UK technological advances in agriculture, in which we are becoming world leaders, because it returns such research to the dead of Brussels’ ‘prudential’ approach, which regards all innovation as a risk unless it can be proven otherwise.

“Hugely retrograde for UK, huge win for EU.”

He was responding to a post by the Cabinet Office about the new deal.

The post said: “Once finalised, our new UK-EU food and drink deal will make it easier for British shoppers to buy Spanish produce and reduce the barriers to great UK companies selling in Spain and the rest of Europe.”

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It comes as the Prime Minister is seeking closer ties with the EU, leading to accusations that Labour is rowing back on Brexit.

The PM said: “We are already aligned with the single market in some areas to drive down the prices of food and energy.

“We are trusted partners. Deeper economic integration is in all of our interests. So we must look at where we can move closer to the single market in other sectors as well, where that would work for both sides.”