Meat is set to be cheaper after ministers scrapped more planned post-Brexit checks on food from the EU following Sir Keir Starmer’s reset deal with Brussels .

The i Paper can reveal that the Government is cancelling planned extra border checks on live animal imports from the EU and specific animal and plant goods from Northern Ireland.

Britain has made the move after the Prime Minister agreed to align with EU agrifood (SPS) laws to strike a deal that will eliminate most of the checks on cross-border food trade, in a bid to bring down prices for supermarket shoppers and make life easier for businesses. New Feature

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It means that meat prices will no longer rise due to the required introduction of new checks after Brexit, as had bee

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