Andrew Pakes

Andrew Pakes

Labour (Co-op) — Peterborough

Speaking in the House of Commons on 8 October 2024

Debate

Farming and Food Security

Contribution

On the issue of stability, I remind my hon. Friend of the opening lines of Labour’s 2010 food and farming strategy: “We can’t carry on just as we are.” Farmers I have met in my constituency would make exactly the same claim now, given the record of the last Conservative Government, who scrapped Labour’s food plan in 2010. Does he agree that if we are to invest in food and farming, and to bring jobs and prosperity to rural and urban constituencies, we must back Labour’s new deal for farmers, invest in food and farming jobs, and put a real plan for food security back on the table?

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