British farmers fear Boris Johnson will surrender UK food standards to Trump in talks with 'fearsome' US negotiators

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• British farmers fear Boris Johnson will surrender UK food standards to Trump in upcoming trade talks.
• The UK government is refusing put in law a commitment to current EU protections for food standards, which will expire at the end of 2020. 
• NFU Brexit director Nick von Westenholz said the group feared the UK government would ultimately concede ground on food standards in talks with "fearsome" US negotiators.
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Britain's farmers fear Boris Johnson's government will trade away British food standards in Brexit trade talks with "fearsome" negotiators US negotiators, the main group representing farmers in the UK has told Business Insider.

Johnson's administration is resisting calls by UK farmers to put current EU protections for food standards into law, in time for the end of the Brexit transition period in December 2020.

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