Sue Pritchard

@suepritch.bsky.social

Chief Exec, Food, Farming & Countryside Commission, UK. Farming, Monmouthshire, Wales. Governor, Royal Agricultural University. Trustee, St George’s House. Woman. On. A. Mission.

🥦 Across parties, food matters to the public & they want political ambition to reflect this. 🌱 With new leadership in government, this is a real opportunity for imaginative, ambitious food policy that drives regional economic growth, improves health outcomes & makes Britain a fairer place to live.

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Although it’s been said before, I wrote this now because the food industry is telling government it can only help with food price inflation if govt lets it off the “regulatory burden”. By which they mean fairer pay, healthier food, reducing waste. Never let a good crisis go to waste, eh…?

Food, Farming and Countryside Commission@ffc-commission.bsky.social · 2mo ago

💸 New blog: The Hidden Bill ffcc.co.uk/conversation... 🌿 In a new blog, FFCC’s Chief Executive @suepritch.bsky.social explores why food industry lobbying & spending remains so difficult to track, and what that means for transparency and public trust.

I’d go further. We need electoral reform now. The (new?) PM should establish a citizens assembly on voting reform in 2027 If there is convincing support, use the labour majority to legislate for the 2029 election. www.thetimes.com/article/16d6...

Senior Greens urge party to step aside for Andy Burnham in Makerfield

A letter to Zack Polanski says the party should seek a pledge on electoral reform in exchange for not fielding a candidate

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In a nutshell from Guy at Riverford. “Most of UK farming is trapped in a cash starved extractive loop that destroys soil and ecosystems while leaving our country’s food supply vulnerable to an increasingly unstable world”

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