Is food finally going to be treated as a national priority?

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The question is not whether the UK’s food system is vulnerable to these changes, it is whether our government is serious about protecting it

Wildfires across Europe have forced more than 300,000 people to evacuate their home this week. And with drought now declared across more than half the UK and fires beginning to break out here too, there are growing warnings that Europe’s crisis is giving us a glimpse of our own “new normal”.

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