In our Conservative Manifesto and in our 2019 Election Campaign we gave a cast iron commitment to guarantee UK/EU Farm and Food Standards.

Ministers have since rightly accepted the case for an Agricultural Trade Commission. Why now refuse to enshrine our standards and Parliamentary scrutiny?

That’s why I broke my asthma isolation and returned to the House in person yesterday to speak in the Agricultural Bill debate and make the clear One Nation Conservative case for high food and farming standards and emphasise why we must #BackBritishFarming.

My full speech in the House last night can be seen here: