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Lizzie Hacking - Conservative Rural Forum chair: "87 words was the best the Labour manifesto had to offer on farming"

Ms Hacking will be standing as a Conservative candidate in Ashton-under-Lyne at the General Election

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Lizzie Hacking: "I do not believe a move away from Environmental Land Management schemes and yet more change for farmers is the correct solution."
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Lizzie Hacking: "I do not believe a move away from Environmental Land Management schemes and yet more change for farmers is the correct solution."

I sit writing this piece from a pub in the Sherwood Forest constituency, having spent the day campaigning for Farming Minister Mark Spencer. Earlier in the week I accompanied Nature Secretary Rebecca...

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