Labour is back in power, but with a brimming intray for matters related to food, farming, climate and health: There’s Defra’s missing net zero plan; farmer confidence at rock-bottom; fruit and veg growers leaving the sector; increasing health inequalities, and the NHS in ‘serious trouble’. All of this while facing a more unstable world politically and climatically, and what looks like very big budget cuts domestically. Yet food and farming do not feature as one of Starmer’s five key ‘missions’, so where does that leave it?

One hundred days into Labour being in office, we examined what the new government has done so far, and look for evidence about where things might be heading.