Britain will have to follow EU rules and pay Brussels millions of pounds a year in return for a new deal to cut post-Brexit red tape on food exports.
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A draft agreement on Labour's Brexit reset was struck yesterday ahead of a summit on November 20.
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The deal will slash red tape on food exports to the EU including lifting an effective ban on the sale of British sausages, burgers and shellfish.
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Andy Burnham last night claimed the deal could eventually add 0.4 per cent of the UK's GDP – equal to £12billion.
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The PM said he now wanted to lead a conversation about getting 'properly close to Europe again'.
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And last night, Mr Burnham told reporters in the Caribbean, where he was attending a meeting of Commonwealth leaders, that the British public would expect him to take up a new EU deal 'with both hands' to secure extra economic growth.
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Downing Street declined to comment on the concessions the PM has made.
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But diplomatic sources said it would involve the UK accepting 'dynamic alignment' with EU rules on food and farming.
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In practice, this means signing up to accept new EU regulations in which the UK will have little or no say.
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Ministers are also ready to sign off annual payments running into the millions to help fund infrastructure projects in poorer EU states.
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Brussels is also pushing for the UK to slash university tuition fees for EU students studying in the UK, potentially costing the taxpayer £450million.
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Andy Burnham last night claimed the deal could eventually add 0.4 per cent of the UK's GDP – equal to £12billion (file image)
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Mr Burnham said the potential economic benefits of the deal were too big to ignore.
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He told the Economist magazine new Treasury analysis suggested, 'at the high end', that easing food and farming exports to the EU 'could add up to 0.4 per cent of GDP'.
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He added: 'Now, that is a number that you cannot ignore...
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if something can be done to add 0.4 per cent to British GDP, that should be pursued very vigorously, and that's what I'm doing.'
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But former Tory business secretary Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg warned that the PM's Brexit reset would come at a 'very high cost' to the country.
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He said: 'Andy is leading us back into the EU with this reset – we will have to follow their rules and we will have to pay them money as we did before we left.
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And he is doing it all without a referendum or even a vote in Parliament.
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This deal is being presented as cost-free, but the truth is it will be very high cost.'
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The bulk of the food and farming deal was negotiated by Sir Keir Starmer last year.
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But the two sides have spent months finalising exactly how it should be implemented.
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The deal is expected to end the so-called 'sausage war' that has effectively ended the export of processed meat products to the EU since Brexit.
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The EU is expected to ditch bureaucratic rules that require food exports to undergo exhaustive inspections.
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Business leaders gave the proposals a cautious welcome.
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William Bain, of the British Chambers of Commerce, said that following EU rules was a 'price worth paying' for 'lower costs, reduced delays and increased market access'.
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Other elements of the proposed deal include a new 'youth experience scheme' which could allow up to 100,000 young adults from the EU to spend up to 12 months working in Britain.
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A similar arrangement would let British youngsters work in the EU.
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Mr Burnham also plans to use the summit to launch a 'conversation' on Britain's future with the EU, which could lead to the UK rejoining after the next election.
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Yesterday he said the public mood on Brexit had changed, with voters now open to a 'more pragmatic discussion'.
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