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03-10-2023, 01:40 PM
By Nick Gutteridge,
POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
2 October 2023 • 8:24pm
Britain will finally scrap “absurd” EU rules on the sale of bendy bananas almost four years after leaving the bloc, the Environment Secretary has announced.
Therese Coffey told the Tory conference that the much-ridiculed Brussels regulations, which became totemic in the Brexit debate, will be wiped from the statute book.
It comes after Rishi Sunak faced criticism when the contentious red tape was not included on a list of European laws destined for the scrapheap earlier this year.
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The rules ...... stated that the fruits have to be “free from malformation or abnormal curvature”.
It does not completely ban the sale of bananas that are deemed too bendy but it does restrict their sale to certain categories, affecting their price.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...96277926-1
POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
2 October 2023 • 8:24pm
Britain will finally scrap “absurd” EU rules on the sale of bendy bananas almost four years after leaving the bloc, the Environment Secretary has announced.
Therese Coffey told the Tory conference that the much-ridiculed Brussels regulations, which became totemic in the Brexit debate, will be wiped from the statute book.
It comes after Rishi Sunak faced criticism when the contentious red tape was not included on a list of European laws destined for the scrapheap earlier this year.
......
The rules ...... stated that the fruits have to be “free from malformation or abnormal curvature”.
It does not completely ban the sale of bananas that are deemed too bendy but it does restrict their sale to certain categories, affecting their price.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...96277926-1
