Richard Griffiths

Perhaps instead of trying to place more cost and burden onto businesses (crippling for some) for a service of questionable benefit we could maybe design a system that works for food production and food security. Enough with the ‘computer says no’ approach.

11. Delivering OCs is a monopoly where the FSA sets the cost. Industry is a captive market that is forced to pay for it. With no competition for the service there is no incentive to control costs. 12. Inflation affects everything except the discount, which is shrinking. …

This is a somewhat disingenuous interpretation of the situation. 1. It is the Food Business Operator’s (FBO) responsibility to produce safe food. 2. The Competent Authority (in this case FSA) is responsible for ensuring the FBO has effective controls in place. ….

Food security starts with producers and here @britishpoultry we’re delighted that the APPG is up and running, and looking forward to it helping ensure the nation eats well.

…more difficult and precarious. ‘Heating or eating’ gets thrown around as a sound bite but for too many this is a new reality by being just on the up side of means testing. I’m not disagreeing with yesterday’s decision, but would like to see a holistic approach to welfare.

The reaction to the winter fuel allowance has highlighted the extremes - those who definitely need it and those who definitely do not. We see similar when talking about access to food, and lose sight of those close to the cliff edge whose life is about to be made a bit…

@pmdfoster @FT Reducing friction/cost of trade is more urgent. Until we understand what the best place we can be is as a 3rd country to the EU, there’s no way to have sensible debate on alignment. If SM/CU is off the table then aligning outcomes not processes may be where we’re headed.

🚨🚨🇪🇺🇬🇧 🚨🚨 Q: Does industry just want to re-align with Europe? A: Not necessarily. Putting Humpty back together again after Brexit is more complicated that is widely understood — my latest @ft State of Britain newsletter. on.ft.com/462ZWGf

@dan_crossley After recent years ‘broadly sensible’ sounds good. I like the setting of ambitions so the supply chain knows what it’s aiming for, but we also need to be very clear with Gov about the tools and support we need. Partnership working will be key…no more ‘them’ and ‘us’.

@pmdfoster @jreynoldsMP @FT @Sam1Fleming @britishchambers All while many sectors see a move towards SM as the ONLY feasible path to stability and business confidence. The refusal to have tough conversations with voters makes it seem Labour is trying, at the same time, to win this election and lose the next one. Reality will bite back.

NEW: 🇪🇺🇬🇧🚨 Labour rules out radical changes to UK-EU trade ties - @jreynoldsMP says anything too radical will upset Brexit consensus and send negative message to investors. Stability is more important. Me & @ft @Sam1Fleming at @britishchambers conference ft.com/content/266d85…

As you’re asking for my vote @DrNeilHudson do you back food security being used for dog-whistle politics at a time when the use of food banks in Epping Forest is growing? How are you going to help reduce hunger and support food producers in this area?

@Conservatives You’ve never taken food security seriously, so don’t drag us into your dog-whistle politics. If you want to be seen as a credible party - in Govt or opposition - then you need to stop this approach.

How do you like your eggs in the morning?

@RishiSunak Where’s the…”and a Conservative Gov will commit to buying as much British produce as possible in our public procurement network; thereby backing our farmers, supporting our largest manufacturing sector, and boosting nutrition for society”?

We shouldn’t be reliant on foreign food. Buy British.

@CCHQPress You mean a strictly regulated activity based on science and world class expertise that balances good welfare with high productivity to the benefit of the whole country, not just those who can afford it? Maybe education is not just for kids…

Labour have failed to work out how much space children actually need. All their policy will achieve is stuffing pre-school children into overcrowded classrooms like battery farm chickens. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

A welcome ambition of course. Yet across food production (UK’s largest manufacturing sector) there are many thousands of vacancies and we’ll need more over the next decade. Perhaps look to help fill those as much as creating new opportunities. #foodsecurity

Land-use and planning for food is going to be a hot topic for any new Government and we need to start an open discussion on what the future holds (and needs): linkedin.com/pulse/land-use… via @LinkedIn