NFU calls on PM to act as England faces driest July on record and food shortages threaten

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