“This has placed British businesses at a competitive disadvantage and reduced the incentive on the European Commission to negotiate measures that would lessen the burdens facing British producers."

"He can’t wriggle out of this one, the net is closing in on him," Luke Pollard said.

Rishi Sunak accidentally votes against government, but ministers see off attempt to uphold food standards in post-Brexit trade deals.

The fisheries minister has refused to say sorry for the government's handling of the post-Brexit shellfish saga amid tough questions from exporters whose sales to the European Union have been torpedoed since the New Year.

Fisheries bill amendments on sustainable quotas and banning of supertrawlers defeated.

Rhetoric that government will develop gold standard fisheries is ‘a joke’, campaigners say.