Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that he will commit to reducing biofuel production in the UK in a bid to combat skyrocketing food prices at home and abroad.
Critics have said it will hardly “make a difference to the cost of living crisis” and urged Johnson to commit to a “radical U-turn on green policy.”
Johnson said that the government has committed to a £372 million package of support to help countries hit by rising global food costs and shortages of fertilizer. He called on G7 leaders to review their own biofuel use.
“While [Russian President] Vladimir Putin continues his futile and unprovoked war in Ukraine and cravenly blockades millions of tonnes of grain, the world’s poorest people are inching closer to starvation,” said Johnson in a statement on Friday, stressing that the measures were to ensure people in poor countries have access to grain….