Dairy Industry

Unfortunately, I was not present when those comments were made. I believe that there is room to make such representations to Europe. The market for food is different from the one for manufactured products. For instance, it would be immoral to keep the market short in order to drive up prices, because people need to have enough food to live. It is the purpose of agriculture to provide sufficient food both in the UK and globally for the world’s population. Keeping the market short to drive up food prices is intolerable, so for that reason and for those given by my hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron), it is proper to have a regulator within the food market. A number of arguments can be made in that regard.