MP urges government to prioritise ‘crucial’ food security

Sir Geoffrey Cox, MP for Torridge and West Devon, told Westminster Hall of the “urgent action” required by the government to help finically struggling farms in the UK.

Cox urged the government to follow the Irish, Northern Irish and Scottish governments by announcing a “hardship fund, allowing flat rate payments to farmers sending more than 200 pigs to slaughter each year”.

The Conservative MP pointed to “another dictator on the borders of Europe” as evidence that “food security in the heart of government policy-making.