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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 30 June 2025
Debate
Marking of Retail Goods Regulations 2025Contribution
This is not only a breach of the commitment in the Safeguarding the Union Command Paper; it is ineffective in what it does and what it purports to achieve. As the noble Baroness, Lady Hoey, said, people come up from the south all the time and buy their goods, fruit and veg, and meat and dairy products in Northern Ireland’s supermarkets and carry them back down south and there is not a word about it. The EU knows this; the UK Government know it; everybody knows it. What is the point of the labels in any case?
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