Brexit Briefing: Weekly Media Summary – 14 July 2017

This Friday’s edition of the Brexit Briefing is part of the series of posts to highlight articles published in the media covering Brexit from an environmental perspective.

The articles are presented in chronological order with the most recent articles first. They are not presented in any specific order of importance & are provided as a selected sample of news articles to promote understanding of the key environmental issues as they develop during the Brexit process.

The selected articles this week are:

Legislative war over Brexit begins as the huge Repeal Bill meant to copy and paste 12,000 Brussels laws and deliver the referendum is FINALLY revealed (MailOnline, 13 July 2017)

Brexit: The UK’s key repeal bill facing challenges (BBC News, 13 July 2017)

Repeal bill: All you need to know (BBC News, 13 July 2017)

Repeal Bill: What is it? Everything you need to know (Independent, 13 July 2017)

Green groups call for overhaul of repeal bill to safeguard environment after Brexit (The Guardian, 12 July 2017)

Zac Goldsmith: Why I seek to become Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee (ConservativeHome, 11 July 2017)

BBC Panorama shows American farmers desperate to break into UK market post-Brexit (FGInsight, 11 July 2017)

Climate change and cost of land cited as top threats (FruitNet, 11 July 2017)

Shoppers ‘completely in the dark’ about Brexit impact – ex-Sainsbury’s boss (BT, 10 July 2017)

“Brexit is an attempt to get out of European regulation. It’s a crisis,” says David Chipperfield (DeZeen, 10 July 2017)

Rebel MPs form cross-party group to oppose hard Brexit (The Guardian, 10 July 2017)

Gibraltar and UK delegations discuss Brexit at the Rock (MercoPress, 8 July 2017)

We need an agreement ASAP (FarmingLife, 8 July 2017)

UK farmers ‘can grow more, sell more and export more’ after Brexit, says new Scotland office minister (FarmingUK, 7 July 2017)

Conservatives battle for chairmanship of powerful Treasury committee (The Guardian, 7 July 2017)

Prices of British strawberries could double if migrant labour drops due to Brexit (FarmingUK, 7 July 2017)