How well will Birmingham and other UK cities cope when (and it appears all too likely to be when not if) there are shortages and scarcities of food? We suspect not well at all.
Last June, the Secretary of State (then Michael Gove) commissioned Henry Dimbleby to conduct an independent review to help the government create its first National Food Strategy for 75 years.
What Michael Gove didn’t say in this speech to the Oxford Farming Conference yesterday was far more significant than what he did. He didn’t say a word about food security. Yet food shortages, and looming food insecurity can be...