Boris Johnson blames EU for kipper rules that are British

At the final Tory hustings on Wednesday, Boris Johnson held up a kipper and claimed regulations imposed by 'Brussels bureaucrats' were damaging trade. On Thursday the European commission said the claims were false. 'The case described by Mr Johnson falls outside the scope of the EU legislation and it’s purely a UK national competence,' it said.
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