Marks & Spencer food chief calls for ‘concrete target’ on British produce

Alex Freudmann says ministers need to increase proportion of food eaten in UK that is grown or reared in Britain

Marks & Spencer's head of food has called on the government to set a legally binding concrete target" to increase the proportion of food produced at home, as he warned that Britain was becoming less and less self-sufficient".

Alex Freudmann, the managing director of the upmarket grocer's food division, which works with 10,000 British farms, said: If ministers are committed to domestic food supply, then they need to prove it, and that's why we're backing our farmers' calls for a clear and concrete target to increase the proportion of food eaten in Britain that's grown or reared in Britain."