UK risks ‘disastrous’ food scandal due to lax post-Brexit border controls – NFU chief

Minette Batters accuses ministers of dereliction of duty' in failing to ensure safety of agricultural imports

Britain is in danger of a disastrous" food scandal, owing to lax post-Brexit border controls on agricultural imports, the leader of the UK's biggest farming organisation has warned.

Minette Batters, the president of the National Farmers' Union, accused ministers of a dereliction of duty" in failing to ensure food and other agricultural imports were safe. She warned that the government had failed to learn the lessons of the horsemeat scandal of 2013.