Post-Brexit food labelling rules to appease DUP will lead to higher prices, says industry

Unionists are concerned ‘not for EU’ labelling on goods transported to Northern Ireland from Great Britain will lead to a dwindling in products sold there. Photograph: Mark Marlow/EPA

Forcing all UK supermarkets to put “not for EU” labels on meat, dairy and plant products in a move to assuage the concerns of unionists in Northern Ireland will force up prices and undermine the war against inflation, ministers have been told.

After months of uncertainty about the post-Brexit regulations, the government has said it will legislate so that the labelling requirement is universal from October as part of a “safeguarding the union” deal with the Democratic Unionist party (DUP).