Andrew Dickens: Food security should be an election priority

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jul 26, 2026 · 2m · transcript

As if the world hasn’t already got enough to worry about what with war, and fuel crisis and inflation, there comes another concern

This weekend The Independent published a piece on UK Farmers warning that food shortages are just 10 days away for the UK and there are signs that suggest they’ve already arrived

Farmers have sounded the alarm about a growing food crisis, and experts say that Britain’s food insecurity needs to be treated as a growing national emergency.

Global conflict combined with climate change are affecting fragile supply chains

These days Britain produces about 60 per cent of…