Politics

Concerns have been raised about the effectiveness of the UK’s border controls, after vehicles importing food were found to contain unlabelled meat and flax seeds with illegally high pesticide residue levels.

Future farm policy has been plunged into uncertainty once more, as Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned after just 45 days in office.

Weeks of economic turmoil may mean that the UK has a deeper recession next year than previously predicted, according to new analysis from Goldman Sachs.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon may not have mentioned farming when she announced her ‘Building a New Scotland’ economic plan this week, but many of the proposals, if ever enacted, would have a direct effect on the industry.

Suella Braverman has resigned as Home Secretary after mistakenly sending an official email from her personal account. She will be replaced by fromer Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.

Christmas meat supplies could be under threat if proposed action by the Food Standards Association (FSA) goes ahead.

New Defra Secretary Ranil Jayawardena has identified the Gulf, India and South East Asia as export markets which will provide farmers with a greater return for British meat.

MPs have moved to offer farms legal protection from disruptive protestors.

An intergenerational mix of farmers, producers, rural workers and environmentalists took to the streets of London at the weekend as part of a Landworkers’ Alliance march aimed at securing Government support for food and farming.

The Environment Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee has urged the new Government to reconsider its response to a report on the impact of the Australian free trade agreement (FTA), after a ‘disappointing’ response from the