NFU urges PM to act as England posts likely driest July on record and food shortages loom

NFU president Tom Bradshaw has urged the prime minister to intervene as Britain faces potential food shortages, following winter floods and England's likely driest July on record — just 8% of average rainfall. Some 23 million people across England and Wales are under hosepipe bans. Farming groups call this the third drought in five years and warn it is the "new normal."