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Andrew RT Davies - Welsh Conservative Party leader on the Autumn Budget: "I fear that there are thousands of little girls and boys around Britain who will be robbed of their birthright to farm the land"

"This tax could well mean the end of the family farm"

Chris Brayford
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Andrew RT Davies said: "I fear that the little boy I chatted to at the protest in Cardiff Bay may not be able to teach his own children to farm when he grows up."
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Andrew RT Davies said: "I fear that the little boy I chatted to at the protest in Cardiff Bay may not be able to teach his own children to farm when he grows up."

On a rainy afternoon in Cardiff Bay in February this year, thousands of farmers gathered to protest against the Labour Welsh Government's Sustainable Farming Scheme. The Scheme, which would force farmers...

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