Labour Ministers and Defra are drawing up contingency plans to ensure food security as farmers threaten to strike over the hated inheritance tax on farms.

Transport secretary Louise Haigh has admitted that plans are being drawn up in Whitehall to deal with empty supermarket shelves this winter if farmers go on strike

Minister dismisses food shortage concerns as farmers threaten strike action - Ministers not expecting that Brits will go without food as biggest farmers’ union draws back from all out action

Ministers are drawing up contingency plans to deal with food shortages if farmers go on strike over the Treasury’s  inheritance tax raid on farms. Louise Haigh, the Transport Secretary, said the Department for Environment,