Liberal Democrats

Horsham MP John Milne said Government needs to work with farmers to deliver a rural development strategy which can help farming communities thrive instead of falling further behind urban areas

Should schools be doing more to buy food locally from farmers and should parents have greater say over what their children eat?

South Devon MP Caroline Voaden said 85% of farmers in her constituency have told her that they could be affected by IHT changes, with average tax bills starting at £637,000

Liberal Democrat MP for Horsham John Milne has written exclusively for Farmers Guardian on why the Government needs to support farmers by strengthening water resilience on-farm

Glastonbury and Somerton MP Sarah Dyke has written exclusively for Farmers Guardian on the vital role of small abattoirs to farming communities and why they need Government support to stay open

Mr Milne, MP for Horsham, writes exclusively for Farmers Guardian on the Trump-Starmer trade deal and what it could mean for British farming

Party says current policing methods are a 'disgrace' as it demands Gov do more to address rural crime

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown reports on a letter sent by the Efra Committee chair, Alistair Carmichael to the Farming Minister calling on the Government to focus on five key areas to improve fairness and resilience in the food supply chain. Later today Mr Carmichael will be presenting his food supply chain fairness bill in Parliament. And the absence of rural crime in the Government's Crime and Policing Bill has been branded 'unacceptable' by a Liberal Democrat MP

North East Fife MP Wendy Chamberlain writes about the family farm tax, changes to Universal Credit, mental health in farming, Defra Secretary Steve Reed, NFU Scotland, tenant farmers and the cost pressures facing the sector