All Government policy articles – Page 90
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News
Jeremy Corbyn accuses Asda and Amazon of being among ‘worst employers’
Labour claimed ambulances were called to Amazon warehouses every two days last year
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Comment and Opinion
How to resolve the dizzying uncertainty of CBD regulation?
As consumer interest and NPD grow, guidelines and advice seem to get correspondingly more frustrating
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Analysis and Features
General election: what the manifestos say on issues affecting food and drink
What the parties have pledged on Brexit, the high street, labour, health, environment and food policy
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Comment and Opinion
Getting Brexit done will invite more impossible deadlines – and more chaos
The Conservative party’s lunge to finish off Brexit will further pressure the food and drink industry after three ‘Brexit days’ have already come and gone
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News
Filippo Berio wins battle to allow advertising on London taxis
The supplier was forced to put a major ad campaign on hold in September when it was told olive oil was classified as an HFSS product
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Comment and Opinion
What would Labour’s manifesto pledges mean for food and drink?
The aftershocks of Jeremy Corbyn’s spending plans are still reverberating
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Analysis and Features
Why is Australia demanding compensation from the UK over Brexit?
Australia, New Zealand and a host of other non-EU countries want compensation for Brexit-related trade disruption
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News
Claims Scotland’s DRS could cause cross-border fraud rejected
Scottish environment secretary Roseanna Cunningham told MSPs the fear was a myth propogated by opponents of the scheme
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News
FDF urges collaborative approach to food and drink issues in election manifesto
The FDF has slammed the government plans for a ban on HFSS promotions
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Comment and Opinion
It’s groundhog day with the same empty promises to fix business rates
Party leaders have promised to ‘breathe new life’ into the high street – but it’s the same old plans being repeated
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News
Retailers urge caution over Labour’s Apprenticeship Levy plans
Climate apprenticeships would be part-funded by diverting 25% of the funds employers already set aside through the Apprenticeship Levy
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News
Tory plans to help high streets need to ‘go much further’ say BRC
The prime minister said today the party had an ambitious programme to “revitalise towns”
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News
Co-op calls on government for better shopworker protections against abuse
Co-op has invested more than £70m in colleague safety, including the installation of remote-monitored CCTV
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News
BRC calls on next government to reform business rates & apprenticeship levy
Measures seen as essential for retail to continue supporting communities have been set out in the BRC’s ‘Vision for the UK’
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Comment and Opinion
It’s election time, but immigration policies are hardly ‘oven-ready’
Boris Johnson doesn’t know how a microwave works, but worse still, his party still isn’t committing to the necessary EU labour for the farming sector
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Analysis and Features
With food front and centre, who deserves industry’s votes?
From no-deal Brexit to plastic, obesity strategy to business rates, where do politicians stand on the crucial issues affecting grocery?
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News
EU and China agree mutual protected status agreement for food and drink products
China will ensure that imitations of 100 European regional food products are neither produced nor sold in the country
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Comment and Opinion
Loosening food safety laws post-Brexit could threaten the union
If we see regulatory divergence between England, Wales and Scotland after Brexit, our issues won’t stop at Northern Ireland
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News
No-deal worries linger as pre-Christmas election is confirmed
Defra and DExEU are urging suppliers to keep preparing for the possibility of a no-deal
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News
Henry Dimbleby appoints ‘free thinkers’ to National Food Advisory Panel
The Leon founder says he deliberately appointed figures who were not scared to rock the boat, but also ‘not afraid to change their minds’