UK food standards: why No 10’s lack of commitment is making farmers furious

Farmers facing one of their toughest years in recent memory have received little comfort this week from a usually reliable ally: the Conservative party. Their pleas to the government to enshrine in law a commitment to the UK’s high standards of food safety and animal welfare were ignored. In a long and impassioned debate in the House of Commons on Monday, amendments to the agriculture bill that had almost universal backing from farming leaders…