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Baroness Kate Rock has Defra role terminated

Peer expresses her 'disappointment and bewilderment' but vows to fight on for tenant farmers

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Baroness Kate Rock has had her role as non-executive director at Defra terminated
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Baroness Kate Rock has had her role as non-executive director at Defra terminated

Baroness Kate Rock, author of the Rock Review into tenant farming, has had her role as non-executive director at Defra terminated. Baroness Rock expressed her ‘deep disappointment' and ‘bewilderment'...

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