El Niño prompts UK to bolster household food stocks and resilience
Environment Secretary Dame Angela Eagle warned the strongest El Niño in a generation could bring drier summers, wetter winters and more extreme storms, prompting advice for households to hold emergency food reserves; the NAO cautioned Britain’s food supply chain faces risks from cyber-attacks, disease and climate change, while Defra said resilience work is underway and a national emergency-preparedness strategy is due to be published by end-2026.