Keir Starmer – Page 4
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Comment & OpinionBig week for international trade deals – but is any win really a win?
Keir Starmer celebrates slam dunks in trade relations –- but here’s what the India and US trade deals mean for the British economy
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NewsUK-US deal to include agrifoods but government draws ‘red line’ on hormone beef and chlorinated chicken
British farmers are closely following the news of a US-UK trade deal over food standard concerns
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NewsUK-India trade deal: food and drink businesses to benefit from ‘historic’ agreement
British food and drink makers are set to benefit significantly from lower trade tariffs with India
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Category ReportHow retailers are cracking healthier snacking
The supers say they’re upping their healthier snack game. Eggs have even poached crisps’ spot as Tesco’s most-bought meal deal side. What’s next?
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NewsMedia Bites 1 May: Post Office, Starbucks, Royal Mail takeover
The government will give ‘recognition’ payments to Post Office Capture victims before they receive full compensation
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Comment & OpinionCan a UK-US trade deal avoid ‘dreaded’ chlorinated chicken?
Most UK food and farming bodies are dead against a US trade deal, with the British Poultry Council recently warning that ‘if agrifood becomes a bargaining chip, we all lose’
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NewsMedia Bites 28 April: M&S cyber attack, Mohsin Issa, US trade deal
M&S has suffered a “bruise” to its reputation, an analyst cited by the BBC has said
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Comment & OpinionWill Reform succeed as the party for food and farming?
Right now food and drink could do with a party concerned to support and nurture it, says Ian Wright, partner at Acuti Associates
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NewsMedia Bites, 22 April: fishing rights, free trade calls and EPR woes
Fishing rights are set to be shared with the EU as the Labour government aims to reset relations with the bloc
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Analysis & FeaturesHormone-treated beef explained: is it a problem or a solution?
The US president claims his tariffs are designed to stimulate negotiation. So is hormone-treated beef likely to form part of an oven-ready trade deal?
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NewsMedia Bites 7 April: tariffs, Tesco, Asda, ABF, Kellogg’s
The trade war kicked off by US president Donald Trump resulted in near-total domination of the media’s business reporting this weekend. Markets opened in the Far East and the ’bloodbath’ in the financial markets is getting worse
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NewsTariff feedback sought from government as it plots Trump response
It comes as the UK government has published a an ‘indicative list of goods’ imported from the US that may be considered in a future UK response
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NewsTrump tariffs ‘will have economic impact’, Starmer warns as businesses brace for impact
UK ministers are scrambling to reach a trade deal with the US that would spare British companies from tariffs
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NewsMedia Bites 3 April: Trump tariffs, industry reaction, junk food ads
The Prime Minister is set to speak to business leaders while the Trade Secretary will look to calm markets on Thursday after Donald Trump slapped a 10% tariff on US imports of UK goods
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Analysis & FeaturesTrump’s Liberation Day: what could US import tariffs mean for NI food and drink?
Food and drink traders in NI are confused as to how incoming tariffs will affect them given their unique UK-EU dual market status
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Comment & OpinionRed tape and bureaucracy: do we need PackUK to run the EPR?
Questions are being raised over the future of PackUK, the new quango set up to run EPR. With a £150k year CEO and separate bureaucracy, could this be run by the industry instead?
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NewsMedia Bites 13 March: Asda, shoplifting, Trump tariffs fallout
The Telegraph has picked up on the latest round of Asda job cuts, while the BRC’s latest shoplifting figures are causing consternation
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NewsChina and Canada target US agrifoods as Trump unleashes tariffs
Booze, orange juice and soy are among the American food products suffering from retaliatory tariffs
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NewsIndia trade deal talks resume as government eyes exports boom
The UK and India have resumed negotiations towards a trade agreement, as British ministers landed in the south east Asian nation on Monday eyeing a deal to help grow the economy
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NewsMedia Bites 21 February: retail sales, animal lead poisoning, indie brewery closures
Retailers have been given a boost by new January sales figures from the ONS