Why Should Labour care about the future of food farming and the countryside

FREE refreshments provided by the Land Workers Alliance

*This event takes place outside the secure zone, and is therefore accessible to all, including those without a conference pass*

SPEAKERS

• Chair – Jake Sumner, Co-Chair SERA & Martin Spray CBE, Chief Executive of WWT and Chair elect of Wildlife & Countryside Link

• Barry Gardiner MP - Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade and Minister for International Climate Change

• Vicki Hird – Campaign Coordinator on Food & Farming Policy at Sustain

• Richard Hebditch – Director of Government Affairs, National Trust

• David Bowles – Head of Public Affairs at RSPCA

• James Cooper – Head of Government Affairs at Woodland Trust

• Humphrey Lloyd - Land Workers Alliance

As the UK edges closer to leaving the EU huge uncertainties lie ahead for the agriculture sector. Britain’s established policies on animal welfare, nature and conservation, public access to the countryside, public health, supply chains and workers’ rights are being ripped up with Brexit and will be replaced with the Conservative government’s Agriculture Bill.

This event will assess the major challenges facing agriculture in the UK today, and consider what sort of future for farming Labour should be fighting for.