‘A new dawn’: Australia and Britain agree on historic trade deal

Press quote (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Sam Lowe
15 June 2021

Centre for European Reform trade expert Sam Lowe said he was surprised the UK agreed to eventually eliminate agricultural tariffs.

“When it comes to tariffs, we have a constituency-based electoral system which sees farmers heavily concentrated in Conservative backyards. The fact we are discussing duty free and quota-free trade is something that will have shocked everyone.”