Government to ‘scale down’ climate change and illegal wildlife measures in bid to secure post-Brexit trade, secret documents reveal

shinyforce:

Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat leader, told The Times: “This Government, not satisfied with delivering the greatest act of economic act of self-harm in history, is now threatening to disregard climate change and threaten the future of our planet. This leaked document shows that the government is now grubbing around for any idea and any principle it seems is up for sale.” 

Yep, fuck that EU bureaucracy that gave us cleaner beaches and purer air.

Government to ‘scale down’ climate change and illegal wildlife measures in bid to secure post-Brexit trade, secret documents reveal