Hundreds of farmers warn MPs ‘fragile food system at critical turning point’

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. They warn any roll back of the agricultural policies which have been in development for six years risk food security in Britain, with the "fragile food system at a critical turning point". In a joint letter to 148 Conservative MPs before her resignation was announced, coordinated by The Nature Friendly Farming Network, farmers say that this is a “false trade-off”. Ms Truss’s review of Elms last week drew the criticism of senior Tory figures including Michael Gove and William Hague, as well as the Conservative Environment Network, whose director Sam Hall described the scheme as being “critical for both food security and farm profitability”. Martin Lines, UK chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, said: “Farmers urgently need a clear vision for the future and the right policies and political will to get us there – we need Elms to work for all farms of every size and system.