British PM Johnson wanted emergency food deal, says Brazil’s Bolsonaro, embassy disagrees – POLITICO

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday stated British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had requested an “emergency” deal to supply a meals product that’s lacking in Britain, a declare that the British embassy in Brazil disputed.

“He needs an emergency settlement with us to import some form of meals that’s missing in England,” Bolsonaro stated on his weekly livestream to supporters. With out naming the product, Bolsonaro stated he referred the request to his agriculture minister, Tereza Cristina.

The British embassy in Brazil stated what Bolsonaro stated was not its recollection of the information, in keeping with Reuters. The workplace of the president has not instantly responded to clarification requests as to which product was being mentioned.

The 2 leaders met earlier this week in New York, the place Bolsonaro turned down Johnson’s name to get a coronavirus vaccine.

Some British fertilizer crops have shut down just lately resulting from a rise in pure gasoline costs. The surge has result in an absence of CO2, which is used to carbonate beer and soda in addition to sedate some animals earlier than slaughter.

In an try to avert meat and poultry shortages, the British authorities has lengthened its emergency state help to meals producers. “We’d like the market to regulate, the meals business is aware of there’s going to be a pointy rise in the price of carbon dioxide,” Atmosphere Secretary George Eustice instructed Sky Information on Wednesday.

Bolsonaro stated Johnson additionally requested him to spice up Brazilian exports of whiskey to the U.Okay., however added on social media that this could be as much as personal companies reasonably than the official enterprise of his authorities.

Portuguese media experiences Bolsonaro needed to wager a case of whiskey with Johnson that his antibodies had been increased than the British prime minister’s regardless of him not having acquired a coronavirus vaccine. Johnson declined.

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