Huw Irranca-Davies MP, Author at Progress | Centre-left Labour politics

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The long and the short of food and farming

The challenge for farming often gets defined in the ‘here and now’: the dairy crisis of 2012, the continuing impacts of the Somerset floods, last year’s cheap imports of lamb or this year’s beef prices, or just the need...

Huw Irranca-Davies MP

6 min read

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Food, farming and the UK in the EU

The UK must be at the heart of the European Union to get the best deal for UK food producers. The food and farming sector represents one in every seven jobs in the UK, and the EU is vital for UK exports both to the EU...

Huw Irranca-Davies MP

3 min read

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No more Morecambe Bays

When the despicable actions of a rogue gangmaster led to the deaths of 23 Chinese cockle-pickers who drowned in Morecambe Bay in 2004, the public was appalled at the scandal of worker exploitation and human trafficking...

Huw Irranca-Davies MP

5 min read

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Spilt milk

Defra ministers talk a good game over food security, and the need to bolster UK farm and food production. Yet at the first critical test of their tenure those same ministers have been found wanting. As the dairy crisis...

Huw Irranca-Davies MP

5 min read

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Compulsory voting

Taking part in elections is not simply a right. It is a duty, and a duty that no citizen should be excused from exercising. So spoil your ballot paper or write ‘none of the above’, because at least that...

Huw Irranca-Davies MP

3 min read

Author - Huw Irranca-Davies MP

The long and the short of food and farming

Food, farming and the UK in the EU

No more Morecambe Bays

Spilt milk

Compulsory voting

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Author - Huw Irranca-Davies MP

The long and the short of food and farming

Food, farming and the UK in the EU

No more Morecambe Bays

Spilt milk

Compulsory voting

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