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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Deputy political editor

Labour pledges ‘new deal for farmers’ to boost UK agriculture

A farmer ploughing a field in North Yorkshire
A farmer ploughing a field in North Yorkshire. Labour is calling for ‘a decade of national renewal with the countryside at its heart’. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

Labour has pledged to improve food security and boost the UK’s agriculture sector with a “new deal for farmers”, including a target that at least half of the food used in hospitals, schools and prisons is British.

Condemning what the party called an abandonment of farmers under the Conservatives, the plan also includes a reiteration of Labour’s proposal to seek to sign a new veterinary agreement with the EU.

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