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Great British PAC Warns Labour's EU Food Deal Risks British Farming Sovereignty

A 200-page draft agreement committing Britain to follow EU food and farming rules as they change has been circulated to EU capitals before the full text has been made available for public and parliamentary scrutiny. Farmers, meat processors, caterers and fishermen back parts of the deal but warn the price is rules Britain cannot veto, the absence of any published impact assessment and animal welfare gains on the table. With the Brussels summit on 20 November, Great British PAC sets out what ministers must publish and guarantee before anything is signed.

Vicky Richter · 9 November 2026
Sovereignty

Great British PAC: Blaming Brexit Is Not a Mandate to Surrender Our Borders

Forty-six per cent of Britons who say the economy is poor blame Brexit for it. Yet when the same polling asks them to choose between closer EU relations and total control over who comes into this country, a plurality chooses control. Great British PAC says the lesson for a Prime Minister preparing to court Brussels is simple: dissatisfaction with the economy is not consent to give away the border.

Vicky Richter · 23 October 2026
Sovereignty

Great British PAC warns of 'Project Fear 2.0' as Burnham prepares Treasury case for rejoining the EU

The Financial Times reports that Downing Street is expected to ask the Treasury to model the economic effects of closer EU ties, ahead of the EU-UK summit in Brussels on 20 November. A decade after George Osborne's doomsday forecasts backfired on the Remain campaign, Great British PAC is warning against Project Fear 2.0 and calling for transparent, balanced economic evidence that informs democratic debate rather than serving it.

Vicky Richter · 21 October 2026
Sovereignty

Great British PAC warns Burnham's EU reset could add £300m to Britain's fresh produce costs

Downing Street says the UK-EU reset will bring food prices down. The body that speaks for Britain's fresh produce trade estimates it will add more than £300 million a year to fruit and vegetables imported from outside the EU. Great British PAC is asking the Government to publish the figures and explain how a deal sold on lower costs does not simply move them onto British families.

Vicky Richter · 20 October 2026
Sovereignty

Tony Blair Institute urges Burnham to set ten-year path towards rejoining EU

A report by the Tony Blair Institute sets a ten-year ambition for Britain to rejoin a significantly reformed EU and lands three days before Labour gathers in Liverpool. The same morning, the IPPR estimated that UK goods exports to the EU could have been up to £6.5bn a year higher under a mutual recognition agreement.

Vicky Richter · 24 September 2026
Sovereignty

Eleven EU states tell Brussels to stop writing laws and start clearing them up

Germany, Italy and Poland are among eleven countries demanding that Brussels stop producing new laws for twelve months, arguing that simplification must start before legislation is adopted rather than years after. It is a warning from eleven of the EU's 27 member states, and it lands in the middle of a budget fight and an industrial crisis.

Vicky Richter · 21 September 2026
Sovereignty

Brexit Was About Taking Back Control. AI Is About What We Do With It.

In 2016, we made the case for Brexit with the information we had then. We talked about sovereignty, borders, democracy, trade and the fundamental principle that the people who make Britain's laws should ultimately be accountable to the British people.

By Great British PAC CEO Claire Bullivant and Chief Policy Director Andrew Hunt · 16 September 2026
Sovereignty

Sinn Féin says Burnham cannot stop break-up of UK after Cardiff self-determination pact

Andy Burnham is facing a co-ordinated nationalist challenge after Sinn Féin, the SNP and Plaid Cymru signed a pact in Cardiff declaring that Westminster has no right to block their nations’ “self-determination”. Michelle O’Neill said the Prime Minister would not be able to “hold back the tide”, while John Swinney claimed Burnham would be the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Vicky Richter · 15 September 2026