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		</div><p>Britain is facing into a &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; over a proposed trade deal with the US, an EU commissioner has warned.</p>
<p>Phil Hogan, agriculture and rural development commissioner in Brussels, also derided British Prime Minister Theresa May&#8217;s plan to strike agreements with countries around the world as a fanciful notion of a new British Empire.</p>
<p>Speaking at a Brexit conference in Dublin, he suggested UK Trade Secretary Liam Fox&#8217;s push for cheap food imports from the US already signals a lowering of standards that risks a revolt from the British public.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Liam Fox is pushing for agriculture to be included in such (UK-US trade) discussions, claiming that Americans have been eating hormone beef and chlorine chicken perfectly safely for years, so what&#8217;s all the fuss about?&#8221;</i> he said.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Would British farmers and consumers accept hormone beef and chlorine chicken on their supermarket shelves?</p>
<p>&#8220;I seriously doubt it. There may yet be a bloodbath over these issues.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Mr Hogan told the conference, organised by the Irish Farmers&#8217; Association, that countries within the EU <i>&#8220;can rest easy in the knowledge that our negotiating weight in trade deals means that our partners rise to our standards, rather than us lowering to theirs.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>A pronouncement by Mrs May, on the day Article 50 was triggered, that Britain will strike similar deals with other countries outside the EU was also questionable, he suggested.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;This aim, based on notions of an Empire 2.0, is somewhat fanciful when you look at the trade-offs the UK would have to submit to in order to do deals around the world,&#8221;</i> he said.</p>
<p>However, he added he was encouraged by the British Prime Minister&#8217;s remarks in more recent weeks now that &#8220;a greater sense of realism&#8221; had kicked into the Brexit debate.</p>
<p>Mr Hogan said he hoped June&#8217;s general election would strengthen Mrs May&#8217;s hand in facing down the &#8220;looney voices on the right of the Tory party&#8221; and that Britain would remain within the EU&#8217;s Customs Union.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;It is my hope that, over the course of the coming months, the British government will recognise that the best way to maintain the freest possible trade in goods such as agri-food products is to remain in the Customs Union, and that sense will prevail,&#8221;</i> he said.</p>
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