Brexit: UK risks being flooded with cheaply produced food, EU warns

Charles Michel says British face a dilemma' over whether to lower regulatory standards

The UK will be flooded with cheaply produced food should it lower its regulatory standards after Brexit, Brussels has warned, echoing a new animal and child welfare campaign backed by the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.

On the eve of a crunch round of negotiations in Brussels over the UK's future trade and security relationship with the EU, the European council president, Charles Michel, said Boris Johnson's government faced a major choice with just three months left of the transition period in which the UK remains in the single market.