Labour to force NHS and schools to buy homegrown food in attempt to win over tax-hit farmers

Hospitals and schools told to buy more British grub in boost to farmers

HOSPITALS and schools will be told to buy more British fruit and veg in an olive branch to angry farmers.  New rules mean half of all grub served up in the public sector must come from UK farms or hit the same high welfare standards. GettySteve Reed is announcing a big rule change which means schools, hospitals and prisons will serve up m,ore British fruit and veg[/caption] It means British farmers will find it easier to get a slice of governmen…

Labour to force NHS and schools to buy homegrown food in attempt to win over tax-hit farmers

Environment Secretary proposes reform as peace offering to those hit by inheritance raid

Britain hit by 'sobering' reality as thousands of farms shut down for good just months ahead of tax raid

Britain has been hit by a “sobering” reality as thousands of farms have been shut down for good ahead of Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax raid

Labour’s New Food Policy Seeks to Win Back Farmers – But Will It Be Enough?

Labour is making a bold move to rebuild trust with British farmers by introducing new public sector food targets. Under the proposed plan, hospitals, schools, and prisons will be required to source at least half of their food from UK producers that meet high welfare and environmental standards. The initiative aims to channel billions of pounds from public sector catering budgets directly into British agriculture, providing much-needed support fo…

Labour needs to recuperate break with farmers with public trade meals targets|Farming

Hospitals, schools and jails are to be prompted to get much more British meals, as part of a federal authorities press to recuperate a break with farmers over modifications to property tax, the Guardian acknowledges. The environment assistant, Steve Reed, will definitely inform the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) yearly seminar on Tuesday that most of the people trade is to be established a goal of sourcing on the very least fifty % of all meals f…

Do you want to buy a British kettle? Go whistle | Phillip Inman - Techregister

Britons might never again get the chance to buy an electric kettle made in the UK. Even a £150 kettle from Dualit, the company most famous for making its celebrated toaster in Crawley, West Sussex, is produced by Chinese workers 5,000 miles away. Most consumers think the whereabouts of the factory or assembly plant riveting their latest purchase together is irrelevant, but those who do want it to be produced locally do not have a choice. There h…