The Agri Brigade
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ATEST figures from HM Revenue & Customs reveal the full extent of the UK’s growing food trade deficit, which now stands at £42bn – a staggering 61 percent increase since 2019 (the last year before the UK left the EU).
In just the first three months of this year, that deficit has increased by a further 7 percent compared to the same period a year earlier. But what is causing this catastrophic combination of largely stagnant or falling domestic food production and a surge in food imports?