Boris Johnson's dad has said people like his son are living in “cloud cuckoo land” if he thinks that the European Union will give Britain a free trade deal without signing up to strict “level playing field” rules.
Stanley Johnson said that the Government would be forced to back down on its insistence that it should set its own farming standards if it wanted an agreement with Brussels.
The level playing field would be an agreement where the UK and EU agree to certain standards and rules in order to stop one undercutting the other.
This has been one of Michel Barnier’s main demands from the Brexit talks but has been repeatedly rejected by Downing Street.
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