Imperial measurements

BORIS JOHNSON is expected to announce the return of imperial measurements to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee next week.

We had the nonsense of traders being charged for not using metric measurements". Currently, the UK uses a mix of imperial and metric measurements but the Prime Minister is expected to announce next week that British shops could now sell products in pounds and ounces. BORIS JOHNSON is expected to announce the return of imperial measurements to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee next week.

Traders have been legally required to use metric units for the sale by weight or measure of fresh produce since 2000, when the EU weights and measures directive ...

It is still legal to price goods in pounds and ounces but these have to be displayed alongside the price in grams and kilograms. During the 2019 general election campaign, Boris Johnson pledged that he would bring back imperial units in shops. The Prime Minister will set out that shops will be allowed to sell products in pounds and ounces, as well as metric units.

Ministers are preparing to consult on how to further incorporate imperial measurements in Britain after Brexit, with Boris Johnson reportedly keen to announce ...

“There are sectors out there – I know people out there in my constituency, the market traders and vegetable traders as well as some of the pubs – which will be pleased to be able to go back to those imperial measurements. “Yes, it is one of the smaller things we can do since we left the EU, there are other bigger things we can do and want to do, but it is an indication we now have the freedom to make these decisions ourselves.” It remains legal to price goods in pounds and ounces but they have to be displayed alongside the price in grams and kilograms.

Boris Johnson will announce a Queen's Platinum Jubilee bid to give traders the choice between metric and imperial units - after two decades of EU law.

And a European Commission spokesperson suggested manufacturers are free to use the Crown stamp. Yet the EU law in 2004 seems to say the opposite. Yes, the law says other markings can appear on pint glasses if they don’t obstruct the CE mark. In 2007, Labour’s then-Trade Minister Jim Fitzpatrick said this law meant the Crown stamp was banned from new pint glasses. Exactly how much of a choice, we don’t know yet. The deadline for this kept being extended until 2009. The government has always said putting it on pints will be “voluntary” - it will not be the legal confirmation of a genuine pint. It says “any other marking may be affixed” to a glass, as long as it doesn’t affect the “visibility and legibility” of the CE mark. Labour MP Jess Phillips tweeted: “Yardley voted for Brexit, literally no one has ever raised metric v imperial measurements with me. NO ONE. It means manufacturers or shopkeepers are free to use Imperial units - as long as they also use metric units at the same time, and the imperial unit isn’t “more prominent”. The second part of Boris Johnson’s announcement is to bring back the Crown stamp on pint glasses now we’re out of the EU.

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It remains legal to price goods in pounds and ounces but they have to be displayed alongside the price in grammes and kilogrammes. The UK currently uses a mix of imperial and metric measurements. The UK Government is set to open a consultation into how imperial measurements can be further incorporated into Britain, the Press Association reports.