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‘Is that the best you can do?’: Rees-Mogg ripped to shreds over soaring food prices

The Tory MP said Brits will avoid a 2 per cent increase on fish fingers and savings on some cheeses thanks to our "Brexit freedoms".

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2022-12-01 17:32
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Brexit has added almost £6 billion to UK food bills over the past two years, new research has found.

Household food bills are up six per cent since the UK’s formal departure from the European Union, a study from the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) revealed.

Low-income households have been hardest hit by the uptick in costs, with Brexit–induced price rises adding 1.1 per cent to their total cost of living — more than the 0.7 per cent increase felt by the wealthiest decile of households.

In all, UK consumers paid £5.8 billion in additional food costs over the two years.

Commenting on the findings, Jacob Rees-Mogg – who previously said we will get cheaper food and clothing outside of the EU – argued that Brits will avoid a 2 per cent extra cost to fish fingers thanks to Brexit, as well as bagging savings on some cheeses.

Needless to say, not everyone was excited about it as he is!

Remember Rees-Mogg, as recently as June, claiming Brexit freedoms would “aggregate to big savings”? Yet we find out today that we’re spending £210 MORE on our food bill, because of Brexit.

Maybe we’re just not buying enough “cheese and fish fingers”. ~AApic.twitter.com/ndTJTxMdvm

— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) December 1, 2022

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