Across the UK, anger is brewing amongst some farmers.  

Protests have already been held in London, Dover and Cardiff, with more planned - mirroring similar tensions seen across Europe in the last six months.     

They say they’re annoyed about cheap foreign imports and changes to subsidies forcing them to give up land in favour of environmental schemes.    

But what does this mean for the food on our table - and does British produce risk becoming a luxury product for the wealthy only?    

On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by West of England and Wales correspondent Dan Whitehead to find out why farmers are so concerned, and speaks to Liz Webster, the founder of Save British Farming, about why she believes eating British isn't just good for our farmers - it's good for the nation's health, too.   

In response to our report, Farming Minister Mark Spencer, said: "We firmly back our farmers. British farming is at the heart of British trade, and we put agriculture at the forefront of any deals we negotiate, prioritising new export opportunities, protecting UK food standards and removing market access barriers. 

"We've maintained the £2.4bn annual farming budget and recently set out the biggest ever package of grants which supports farmers to produce food profitably and sustainably."

The Welsh government said: "A successful future for Welsh farming should combine the best of our traditional farming alongside cutting-edge innovation and diversification. 

"It will produce the very best of Welsh food to the highest standards, while safeguarding our precious environment and addressing the urgent call of the climate and nature emergencies."

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But stick with us, we'll have updates from Westminster all day.

Following the defection of the Dover and Deal MP Natalie Elphicke to Labour, Beth, Ruth and Jess discuss the surprise move and whether it could have been handled differently by Sir Keir Starmer.

They also talk about Beth's interview with the former immigration minister Robert Jenrick and his warnings about Reform UK.

Plus, how significant was the defeat of former Conservative mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street? Beth and Jess were both there to tell the story.

And they answer a question on Labour and the Muslim vote, and what the party can do to restore confidence and trust.

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In January 2023, Rishi Sunak made five promises.

Since then, he and his ministers have rarely missed an opportunity to list them. In case you haven't heard, he promised to:

• Halve inflation
• Grow the economy
• Reduce debt
• Cut NHS waiting lists and times
• Stop the boats

See below how he is doing on these goals:

Next up, Trevor Phillips is joined by Sally Mapstone, the vice-chancellor of St Andrews University.

Ms Mapstone attended a meeting at Downing Street on Thursday, in which Rishi Sunak met with university bosses and Jewish students.

They discussed a "de-escalation" of protests on campus.

"The meeting on Thursday was with government but I should say it was also attended by representatives from the Union of Jewish Students," Ms Mapstone says.

"It was good to have them along there."

She adds: "I wouldn't say that the prime minister was making a complaint, this was really an opportunity for universities to express the seriousness of which we are taking cases of perceived or reported antisemitism on campus -and recognising there has been an increase across the UK in this kind of reporting."

There was an emphasis on "de-escalating the situation," she says.

"We manifestly don't want to see any incidents or the sort of activity that we've seen on US campuses, which is so distressing."

Jonathan Ashworth is now asked about Labour's new MP, Natalie Elphicke.

There are allegations that she lobbied the justice secretary in 2020 to interfere in her then-husband's sex offences trial. However, her spokesperson has dismissed this as "nonsense".

Mr Ashworth says: "She's said it is nonsense and not her interpretation of the meeting."

He adds: "Natalie Elphicke's defection, that in itself reveals the disintegration and decay that we're seeing in the Tory government."

Jonathan Ashworth is now asked about the matter of small boats, as the number of people who have crossed to the UK illegally rises to 9,000.

So what would Labour do?

"There's a number of things that we believe should be done, which don't happen," he says. "Now, it's why we've called for a new border security command. That's what we would introduce.

"It would bring together all the different crime and intelligence agencies."

Asked to explain what is new about this, Mr Ashworth says: "We will allow so what we call some of the terrorist style laws to be used to go after people smugglers, things like the control orders, which mean people can meet people, sort of the financial arrangements, internet access, things like that can be dealt with using stop and search powers that are currently use for people suspected of terrorism at the borders. 

"We should use them against people smugglers. Suspected people smugglers. Getting search warrants to go into premises, which, we use when we're going after terrorists. 

"We, we want to use similar powers to go after people smugglers."

Trevor puts it to Mr Ashworth that people smugglers mostly operate from France.

"Well, we have, our arrangements with Europol, with, France and other countries." he says. "There's obviously issues around the jurisdictions of other nations. Quite obviously. 

"However you can cooperate."

Trevor Phillips is now joined by Labour's Jonathan Ashworth, and they begin their conversation about fears of an Israeli offensive into Rafah.

"A full-scale offensive into Rafah would be catastrophic beyond description," he says. 

"I think there are over a million people, perhaps 1.5 million people,  in that region, 600,000 children. We've been calling for an immediate ceasefire for some time.

"I strongly believe we need a ceasefire. We need international aid into the region."

The shadow paymaster general adds he doesn't want to see "British-made weapons, British-made components which are mark of weapons, be used in any full scale offensive into Rafah."

He says the government should follow the US example on a sales ban.

Mr Ashworth is asked if the UK should pause arms sales to Israel.

"We should be pausing arms sales to any arms that would be used in that Rafah offensive," he says.

But what does that mean?

"We do not want this Rafah offensive to go ahead," Mr Ashworth says.

"The Americans have said they are not going to hand over arms that could be used in a Rafah offensive, I'm saying that we should adopt a similar position."

The Sky News live poll tracker - collated and updated by our Data and Forensics team - aggregates various surveys to indicate how voters feel about the different political parties.

With the local elections complete, Labour is still sitting comfortably ahead, with the Tories trailing behind.

See the latest update below - and you can read more about the methodology behind the tracker here.

Trevor now asks Lord Cameron about the local elections, at which the Conservatives lost hundreds of council seats and key mayoral races.

The foreign secretary says Rishi Sunak "is a good man, doing a great job at a difficult time".

He adds: "We saw [this] week that his economic plans are coming right. You know, with the 0.6% growth, much more than people expected, more than the IMF expected. 

"And you've got the situation now where you can see inflation coming down. I think interest rates are going to come down.

"Taxes are coming down, the economy's growing. And I think you've got a very clear choice opening up. And that's what happens as you get to the end of a parliament. 

"It stops being a referendum on the government every day, and it starts being a choice between two teams."

Asked about the timing of the election, Lord Cameron says: "He said second half of the year. And I think that's absolutely right.

"Because... you can see the economic plan is working."