Sir peter westmacott brexit results

• Sir Peter Westmacott, Britain's former ambassador to the United States, has warned that Britain would be forced to open up its markets to cheap American meat as the "price" of any new bilateral trade deal with Washington.
• The ambassador also warned that the US would demand that Britain opened up its markets to cheap imports of American meat, which would place British farmers under "severe threat."
• Currently, strict EU legislation bans the import of cheaply produced American products such as hormone-treated meat, genetically modified vegetables.
• Britain will decide whether those bans stay in place after Brexit, but Washington appears determined that any trade deal will hinge on the UK scrapping them.

LONDON — A post-Brexit trade deal with the US trade risks putting the future of British farms under "severe threat," the UK's former ambassador to t