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Sheep farmers need EU trade deal, says Conservative MP



Getting a post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union is "very important to sheep farming", a Tory MP has said.

Former Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb said agricultural communities would not be "satisfied" if the transition period ended without
an agreement.

"A deal is better than no deal," the Preseli Pembrokeshire MP said.

Environment Secretary George Eustice has suggested some sheep farmers could switch to beef farming if the EU imposed tariffs on
UK lamb prices.

Mr Crabb said he was still "optimistic" a trade deal with the EU will be signed before the end of the transition period on 31 December.

He added that he did believe the UK government was "negotiating seriously" but that it is "not going to blink first - it is going to
push it to the wire."

But Mr Crabb said that if, in ten days time, "we are still stuck in the same place" then he would start "to feel very nervous indeed."

Both sides have said they are reaching a "make or break" point in the talks.

Mr Crabb was asked on the BBC's Politics Live programme about Mr Eustice's comments on Sunday.

The environment secretary had said: "If we're not importing as much beef from Ireland, then those mixed beef and sheep
enterprises would be able to diversify into beef."

In response, Mr Crabb told the BBC's Politics Live that farmers would not be satisfied with that.

"For the agricultural community it's pretty clear cut - a deal is better than no deal. Particularly for sheep farming getting a deal is
very important," he said.

Mr Crabb argued the UK government would need to make some kind of intervention to protect sheep farmers livelihoods if no deal
was reached.

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