Article 6FDQT Labour’s Defra team vows to get tough on pollution and protect farmers

Labour’s Defra team vows to get tough on pollution and protect farmers

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Helena Horton Environment reporter
from Environment | The Guardian on (#6FDQT)

Strategy for governing includes taking on firms that contaminate environment and getting supermarkets to pay fair price to farmers

Labour's new environment team says it will take on big businesses and supermarkets in order to halt pollution and stop farmers from being ripped off if it wins the next election.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has been criticised in the past for being too soft on polluting companies, and not using its full powers to stop water companies from spilling sewage. Farming groups have also criticised its close relationship with supermarkets, when farmers have felt ripped off by rising prices not being passed down the supply chain to their struggling businesses.

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