El Campoâs state senator juggles issues from illegal border crossings to making sure you get to visit your loved one living in a nursing home on any given day. Thatâs just another day at the office for Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham.
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The government should create a food security minister to ensure continued progress in helping feed poverty-hit people, according to MPs.
A report from the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee says progress made during the pandemic should be maintained as lockdown eases.
Ministers mobilised their departments during the pandemic, but this impetus needs to be sustained, MPs say.
And the government should consider enshrining in law a right to food .
Tory MP Neil Parish, who chairs the Commons committee, said the efforts to feed the most vulnerable people during the Covid-19 crisis should set a precedent for the future.