PPTT analysis finds EU-UK Trade Cooperation Agreement leaves workers’ rights ‘at serious risk of erosion’

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The Progressive Policy Think Tank (PPTT) has published an analysis of the EU-UK post-Brexit trade deal, highlighting the benefit of the deal over no deal but finding important implications for labour, environmental protections and state aid. In particular, the PPTT analysis finds that the deal ‘leaves workers’ rights and environmental protections at serious risk of erosion’ because the newly agreed process for safeguarding a ‘level playing field’ sets such as high bar for proof that the key elements are ‘likely to be enforced only rarely’.