Improving rural life – from economy and infrastructure to housing, education, and healthcare – needs a joined-up government approach. We are working to build that. And I want to hear from you.
Last year’s State of Nature report suggested the UK “is now one of the most nature-depleted countries on Earth”, with 16 per cent of the 10,000 species of mammals, plants, insects, birds and amphibians under threat of extinction, including turtle doves.
Badenoch would be mad not to bind the ertstwhile hero of Clarkson’s Farm to the Tories in any way possible.
We must back the growing of food, we must defend rural pursuits and the rural way of life. We will be amazed by the warm reception we’ll receive on the doorstep. For farmers and our rural communities are innately conservative.
Labour are are not part of our rural communities and worse, many don’t care about them. The sad truth is once these family farms are gone, they are gone – and we’ll feel the consequences a long time after this Labour Government is removed.
Her bravura performances as Shadow Housing Secretary, putting Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner to the sword, have already shown that she can take the fight to Labour.
The Government has found the right answer with its nature-friendly farm subsidies, replacing the EU’s failed Common Agricultural Policy. But more incentives are needed.
The Conservatives were voted in on a platform to take decisive action on live exports. It’s time they delivered before it’s too late.
Scoring generously, we can say the Prime Minister has saved the nation from two policies of his own government. The other three seem only to have been internal proposals.
There is now a £56 billion investment programme to curb sewage, with discharges into bathing waters cut by 70 per cent by 2035.
We will break down barriers, improve skills, get more people into better-paying jobs, and ensure support reaches those that need it.
DEFRA should aim to produce, based on a representative sample of farms, estimates of the welfare status of each farmed animal in the UK.
Most of us can get used to dysfunction in the busy and familiar setting of our day-to-day lives. But a change of scene offers a different perspective.
To the extent the opposition parties have proposals, they offer wildly unrealistic timescales – and neglect to mention the huge increases in household bills they would necessitate.
The world has changed. This is our opportunity to move beyond factory farming and build a system that meets today’s needs: resilient, sustainable, and fair.