Environment secretary Liz Truss has faced further criticism over Defra’s lack of a Brexit plan for food and farming.
Giving evidence to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) Committee this week, Truss confirmed Defra had still made no assessment of the impact leaving the EU would have on the farming sector, and doesn’t plan to do so.
Committee members slammed the decision as “irresponsible”, but Truss insisted Defra’s resources were better spent tackling issues like floods and animal disease.
“We are not creating a plan B and spending Defra’s resources doing that because it would mean we have to stop doing something else,” she said.
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