Keir Starmer urged to use Brexit freedoms to slash costs and chemicals in food

Kitty Thompson, Senior Nature Programme Manager at the Conservative Environment Network, urged the Government to use legislation to unlock the full potential of science.

She said: “At the exact moment this Labour government should be unlocking the Genetic Technology Act’s full potential, it is instead looking for ways to get closer to the EU.

“Any efforts to make trading with the EU easier should absolutely not come at the expense of the progress we have made on making it easier for our farmers to access gene-editing technology.”

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