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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jack Simpson and Helena Horton

Sunak’s food security plan fails to fix immediate problems, says farming chief

Rishi Sunak with farmers during the the Farm to Fork summit at No 10.
Rishi Sunak with farmers during the the Farm to Fork summit at No 10. Photograph: Simon Walker/10 Downing Street

Rishi Sunak’s plan to improve the UK’s food security will not help build farmer’s confidence in the short-term, the head of the country’s biggest farming body has said.

Food production was likely to drop next year, said Tom Bradshaw, the president of the National Farmers’ Union, who warned that the prime minister’s plan, published during the UK’s second annual Farm to Fork summit, failed to give farmers the solutions they needed.

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