The Secretary of State is very generous in giving way. On that point, does she not recognise that the bottom line is that if we are rightly asking farmers to lead the way on more sustainable farming methods, yet at the same time allowing imports to come in that will undercut them—because they are not having to meet the same standards and are therefore cheaper—we are essentially handing farmers a knife to cut their own throats? It is simply not sustainable. Notwithstanding all her nice words about safeguards, do we not need to make sure that there are much stronger environmental regulations in these trade agreements so that we do not actually cut off the livelihoods of our own small farmers?
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Caroline Lucas
(Green Party)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 6 September 2022.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill.
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