Agromenes: Why is our tax money not being spent on British food?

Agromenes had high hopes for the incoming Labour Government, particularly after the bombast, dogma and drift that had so often characterised its very unconservative predecessors.

Sadly, in the party’s first year, much has unravelled nationally , but nowhere more starkly than in the countryside. It promised so well. Committed to protecting the family farm, Sir Keir Starmer’s party said that public authorities — Government departments, local councils, the NHS and our Armed Forces — would all have a ‘buy British’ food policy, so that at least 50% of their purchases would be grown here in the UK. It was this undertaking that has been regularly restated as the proof of Labour’s commitment to the countryside, particularly when other policies have clearly harmed rural Britain.

What a chance th