Kendal Town Council is calling on the government to safeguard the environment, biodiversity, and the food chain as it debates the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill.

The Town Council considered a motion that called on the Secretary of State at the Department for Food, the Environment, and Rural Affairs to ensure that the Bill did not lose the protections considered vital for the Cumbrian economy.

Councillor Eamonn Hennessy, who chairs the Town Council's Environment and Highways Committee added: "We are working hard to promote biodiversity and nature recovery. 

"Through our Citizen's Climate Jury we worked with our local farming community to promote local food production and best practice. 

"Much of that work would be under threat if we throw away the basic values of good regulation. 

"This is not the wild west - we don’t need to learn from first principles how to produce food safely, how to keep our rivers and water clean, how to promote biodiversity. 

"It’s all there in existing law - we should be supporting its better enforcement, not throwing it away."