Posted 12/27/2023, 12:01:00 AM
Sunak Scraps Plan to Reintroduce Imperial Units Despite Years of Brexit Support
- Rishi Sunak has scrapped plans to allow shops to sell products in imperial units like pounds and ounces
- 98.7% of people opposed bringing back imperial measurements in a government consultation
- Instead, the government will allow pint bottles of champagne, which were previously banned by the EU
- Using imperial measurements has been an emotive Brexit issue for years since the EU required metric units
- Boris Johnson previously promoted this as a Brexit "dividend"