The research suggests post-Brexit free trade deals could see poorer diets in the country. The study – published yesterday in the journal Nature Food – estimated how post-Brexit trade and agriculture policies could impact dietary health in the UK, looking at how different post-Brexit strategies would affect the intake, availability and cost of food. The study was led by Marco Springmann of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food at the University of Oxford, and Florian Freund of the Thünen Institute, in Germany. Dr Springmann said: “Our study shows that a ‘global Britain’ strategy, that includes trade agreements with large exporters of foods that are neither healthy nor sustainable, runs counter to public health considerations and should be subjected to serious scrutiny.”