United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s claims that the U.S. lifted a British lamb ban may have been branded “misleading” by his government officials.
In emails from the U.K. Government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, officials raised questions, stating the ban had “not yet been lifted,” and there would be “many steps to be taken” before exports could go ahead, according to the Daily Record.
An email from Sept. 23 showed an official saying: “I wanted to reach out to you in light of the Prime Minister’s statement to the media yesterday with regards to market access for U.K. lamb to the U.S. and the lifting of the current ban—some of what he said was misleading, and as a result, we have prepared some reactive lines.” The official wrote that “if pushed,” the following could be said: “We understand the ultimate publication of the updated rule, and therefore the ‘lifting of the ban’ is not subject to a deadline.”
