If Andy Burnham wants a fast win, the Good Food Cycle awaits

Tim McKnight, Andy Burnham and Chris Silcock

There is huge speculation about what former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham may do when it comes to food strategy and health

It’s a year since the government published plans for a “generational change” in England’s relationship with food, through a long-awaited food strategy. Then food minister Daniel Zeichner promised a “healthier, more affordable, sustainable, resilient food system that restores pride in our British food culture”.

The fact that 12 months on virtually nothing of any note has resulted is as much because of how simultaneously vague, ambitious and frankly unachievable its aims were, as much as it does about all the political and economic upheaval.

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