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In pitching to the environmental movement, Gove seeks allies in the forthcoming debate about farm subsidies

If wealthy landowners fight to retain their CAP subsidies, then support for reform from the green movement could come in handy.

By Mark Wallace | 21 July 2017 | 25 comments

The Environment Secretary’s speech pledging a ‘Green Brexit’ – full text

“Leaving the EU gives us a once in a lifetime opportunity to reform…how we care for our land, our rivers and our seas.”

21 July 2017 | 13 comments

Zac Goldsmith: Why I seek to become Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee

Brexit brings unique challenges and opportunities. And my background in campaigning on environmental issues equips me for the job.

By Zac Goldsmith MP | 11 July 2017 | 25 comments

Sean O’Callaghan: Puffed-up, bewildered, pampered second-raters. The elites that nearly let an extremist into Downing Street.

There is only one priority: keep the Stalinists, trots, Islamist fellow-travellers, gender and feminist lunatics and, yes, the young deluded idealists out of power.

By Sean OCallaghan | 18 June 2017 | 45 comments

Andrea Leadsom: Brexit can let us give British agriculture a better deal

Our departure from the EU is an opportunity to emerge from a period of great national change stronger and more prosperous than ever before.

By Andrea Leadsom | 29 May 2017 | 110 comments

What would WTO mean? 3) William Norton: Designing a post-Brexit agricultural policy

Hammering out a “Son of CAP” has its challenges, but they are more technical than political – and can be resolved.

By William Norton | 24 May 2017 | 47 comments

Richard Ali: Environmental payments. A safety net. And a sovereign fund. How to build a post-Brexit future for farming.

Get policy right, and our farmers and growers can, and will, innovate and seize the opportunities that change will undoubtedly bring.

By Richard Ali | 18 March 2017 | 43 comments

Rebecca Lowe Coulson: The rights and wrongs of eating meat

It’s possible to accept all the arguments suggesting that it’s sensible for us to do so – but still feel morally queasy.

By Rebecca Lowe | 15 March 2017 | 52 comments

James Cartlidge: The devastating truth at the heart of the NICs row. We’re palming difficult decisions off on the next generation.

We may be rowing back to defend one promise. But another more fundamental promise to the future is actually at stake.

By James Cartlidge MP | 11 March 2017 | 180 comments

Alex Morton: The Left builds third party support. If May can’t do so too, her government will fail.

Officials, advisers and Ministers will always need external expertise: what we need are conservative-minded experts.

By Alex Morton | 7 September 2016 | 9 comments

Paul Abbott: The Coalition in 163 charts

The Institute for Government’s new guide reminds us that the Conservative-Liberal Democrat partnership helped to improve Britain for the better.

By Paul Abbott | 23 November 2015 | 6 comments

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