From: DMcG - PM
Date: 27 Feb 18 - 01:36 PM
Wow, people have been busy posting today! I have a lot of reading to catch up on.

Nigel, I'd be grateful if you could explain how David Davis' remarks:

David Davis said the UK wanted to lead a "global race to the top" in rights and standards not, as some feared, a "competitive race to the bottom".

... promising the UK will "continue our track record of meeting high standards" once outside the EU.

from the BBC site, but lots of other places quote it)


fits with
(a) with the link I posted saying the US would be reluctant to do a trade deal at all unless we let the chlorinated chicken in

The link you posted does not say that.

The link you posted says:
Warren Maruyama, who developed the North Atlantic Trade Agreement (NAFTA) under President George H.W Bush, said the UK faced a "big problem" if it went into future trade talks while bound by EU regulations on food standards.

"Under our system Congress gets the ultimate say and if we do a free trade agreement it has to pass the Congress," Mr Maruyama told the Telegraph.

"If American agriculture is opposed to a UK free trade agreement, I wouldn’t say it’s dead on arrival but it’s pretty close. It would be a serious hurdle."

It then went on to mention chlorine washed chicken by way of a comment from Jeremy Corbyn.