Hailed by a UKIP MEP as “bonkers”, the European Union (EU) has proposed a ban on selling certain food items by quantity.

Fruit, eggs and bread rolls will have to be sold by their weight in grams rather than their quantity under new rules, which have already been in place in the wider EU but not in the UK.

“This is plain bonkers,” said UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall. “The idiot bureaucrats who have dreamed this nonsense up say it will help consumers make an informed choice when buying food.”

Earlier this year, the EU attempted to enforce a ban on wonky and discoloured fruit and veg.

If it were implemented, it would have brought an end to straight bananas and curly cucumbers but, luckily for all office fruit fanatics, it was agreed that it would increase food wastage, so the bid failed.

At the time, Liberal Democrat MEP George Lyon said: “The shape of a fruit is irrelevant to its taste and nutrition.”

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