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Ms Coffey blamed the shortages on"very unusual weather" in places like Morocco and Spain, from where Britain sources much fresh produce during its dark winter months.
"To have snow and the amount of heat that was there and the amount of other adverse weather is pretty unusual."Environment Secretary Therese Coffey says the crisis should be resolved within four weeks Shadow environment secretary Jim McMahon called her response"detached from the reality on the ground" and questioned"this idea that somehow it's all external forces" of COVID, Brexit, Ukraine and energy prices behind the crisis."If the government don't understand that food security is national security... frankly there is no hope for the nation," he said.
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