Downing Street’s Farm to Fork summit must launch valuable and practical initiatives immediately to help families struggling with the cost of living.
Otherwise it will be just another PR stunt by this increasingly desperate Tory Government.
We want to see many solutions offered – such as supermarkets guaranteeing cheaper own-brand products in every shop, including smaller neighbourhood branches.
Unfortunately, it seems soaring prices are a sideshow for out-of-touch Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who is setting out her stall to be next leader of a disintegrating and increasingly extreme party.
In the real world, plunging living standards are the number one issue for tens of millions abandoned by a Tory party fighting itself.
Welcome arms
Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky’s whistle-stop tour of Europe earned him valuable new weapons, including the UK’s promise of hundreds of long-range attack drones and air defence missiles.
The extra arms for a counter-offensive to push Putin’s invaders out of Ukrainian territory could tip the balance in Mr Zelensky’s favour.
Rishi Sunak blocking a request for fighter jets, first publicly made three months ago, is in line with the US, Germany, France and most other NATO nations afraid that supplying expensive warplanes could draw them into direct confrontation with nuclear Moscow.
Yet Ukraine repelling Putin is in the interests of democracy in Europe and charismatic Zelensky is a war leader who will never take no for an answer.
Morning gory
Strangers at a bus stop have more chemistry than This Morning’s one-time golden couple Holly and Phil.
To get over their very bad patch and revive the old magic, perhaps the pair should try Relate counselling or calling in Acas workplace mediators. If they fail then maybe UN blue helmet peacekeepers could patrol the studio.
