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Opinion: Clare Wise – "Another PM with no rural leaning is hardly going to set farming hearts and minds alight with hope"

Following Keir Starmer's resignation, County Durham livestock farmer Clare Wise says the next Prime Minister must either listen, or get out of the way to ensure farmers can do their job

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Opinion: Clare Wise – "Another PM with no rural leaning is hardly going to set farming hearts and minds alight with hope"

To an industry beset with non sensical government decisions, the knee jerk desire to welcome Sir Keir Starmer's resignation with glee is understandable. The hope Chancellor Rachel Reeves might follow is...

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