UNITE called on the government yesterday not to “sell out” British food workers by accepting imports of chlorinated chicken in a post-Brexit trade deal with the United States.

The union said that public health and decent jobs would be at risk if the government allowed US-made chlorinated chicken to enter the country.

The warning coincided with American Farm Bureau boss Zippy Duvall saying that an agreement on chlorinated chicken was an “essential” part of any deal between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Donald Trump.