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Weekly Economics Podcast: What’s Brexit done to fishing and farming?
Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by NEF Associate Fellow, Chris Williams
By
Ayeisha Thomas-Smith
02 March 2021
We were supposed to have cast off the shackles of EU rules around farming and fishing. Brexit was sold as a ‘sea of opportunity’. And yet, tonnes of British meat have been left rotting at European ports, while Scottish fishers have had to make a 72-hour round trip to land their catch in Denmark.
The PM has said these are just “teething problems”. But are they really? What’s it been