A thousand charities today call on Rishi Sunak to pay for surplus food to go to hard-up families battling the cost-of-living crisis.
The amount of food wasted by Britain’s food industry every year is enough to feed every person in the UK three meals a day, plus a snack, for a month, research suggests.
More than three million tonnes of good-to-eat food is wasted on UK farms every year - the equivalent of 6.9 billion meals.
