Post-Brexit Britain should phase out tariffs on food, says thinktank

Policy Exchange says EU agricultural policy should be replaced by system that makes imported meat cheaper for consumers

Britain should abandon tariffs on American and Argentinian meat products after Brexit to bring consumer food prices down, according to a leading rightwing thinktank.

Policy Exchange said the UK should phase out tariffs on agricultural products, saying they raise prices and complicate trade deals, although critics say that would pave the way for hormone-treated beef or chlorine-washed chickens, currently banned under EU law, to reach British supermarket shelves.