Steve Reed - Cabinet minister for the environment and food - said: “The Government is committed to using its own purchasing power to back British produce.
It means British farmers will find it easier to get a slice of government contracts worth a tasty £5 billion.
HOSPITALS and schools will be told to buy more British fruit and veg in an olive branch to angry farmers.
It will be seen as an olive branch to farmers - who have staged tractor blockades across the country in protest at the inheritance tax hike.
New rules mean half of all grub served up in the public sector must come from UK farms or hit the same high welfare standards.
