News • Sustainable Farming Campaign
Why should Labour care about the future of food farming and the countryside?
Sustain with SERA - Labour's Environment Campaign - and Wildlife & Countryside link (including WWT, RSPB, Woodland Trust, RSPCA and National Trust) are hosting an event at the Labour part Conference 25 September, Liverpool.
LOCATION Blundell Street Restaurant, 63-65, Blundell Street. L1 0AJ. A few minutes walk from the conference hall
DATE Tuesday 25th September
TIME 18:00 - 19:15
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*
*TO RSVP FOR THIS EVENT, SIGN-UP FOR FREE VIA EVENTBRITE HERE*
SPEAKERS
- Chair – Jake Sumner, Co-Chair SERA & Martin Spray CBE, CEO, WWT
- 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.
- September 25, 2018 at 6pm – 7:15pm
- Blundell Street Restaurant, Blundell Street, L1 0AJ
Published Monday 17 September 2018
Sustainable Farming Campaign: Sustain encourages integration of sustainable food and farming into local, regional and national government policies.
