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Almost every aspect of our food, and the industry that produces processes and sells it, is likely to be affected by the UK’s departure from the EU – yet experts say the government has barely even begun to plan for it.

It is clear we are not short of questions. Will our food run out? How will it get through customs? Will we still get fresh fruit? The fall in the pound since the referendum has already pushed prices up; how much further could they rise if tariffs are imposed in the case of a hard Brexit? Will our farmers survive? Who is going to havest and process our crops? What is going to happen to food standards? And perhaps the hardest question of all – could Brexit actually be an opportunity to right some of our wrongs in terms of healthy eating and a safe and sustainable food sector in the future?

With Jon Henley to answer – or at least try to answer – some of these qauestions are a trio of what we on Brexit Means are proud to call actual experts: Felicity Lawrence, Guardian special correspondent and author of two groundbreaking books exposing some of what’s wrong with the food business; Minette Batters, deputy president of the National Farmers’ Union; and Erik Millstone of Sussex University and co-author of a recent report that concluded the government was “sleepwalking” into a post-Brexit future of insecure, unsafe and increasingly expensive food.