Huw Irranca-Davies MP Articles

The challenge for farming often gets defined in the ‘here and now’: the dairy crisis of 2012, the continuing impacts of the Somerset floods, last year’s cheap imports of lamb or this year’s beef prices, or just the need to get this season’s crops safely in and put a...

The UK must be at the heart of the European Union to get the best deal for UK food producers. The food and farming sector represents one in every seven jobs in the UK, and the EU is vital for UK exports both to the EU and beyond. The last Labour government played a...

When the despicable actions of a rogue gangmaster led to the deaths of 23 Chinese cockle-pickers who drowned in Morecambe Bay in 2004, the public was appalled at the scandal of worker exploitation and human trafficking which was revealed. The outcry brought together...

Defra ministers talk a good game over food security, and the need to bolster UK farm and food production. Yet at the first critical test of their tenure those same ministers have been found wanting. As the dairy crisis loomed, ministers were asleep on the job. Yet the...