The Brexit reset minister will set the EU a 2027 deadline to strike a deal on food and drink trade to bring down supermarket prices, as the Government faces pressure on inflation .

Nick Thomas-Symonds will today use a speech to confirm the Government’s ambition to finalise an agrifood deal within 18 months after Sir Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agreed headline terms in May.

He will set out the UK’s position on how it will follow EU laws on food and drink as part of a necessary step to boost economic growth, protect business, secure jobs and bring down food prices, telling hardline Leavers that it is “sovereignty, exercised in the national interest”.

New research will also be published by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (De

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