Brexit
04 Feb 2019
Podcast Episode – The beef farmer
Carole Walker, is a former political news correspondent with the BBC. She has developed her own Podcast called ‘The View from Here’ and has kindly allowed the Rural Services Network...
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14 Jan 2019
Farmers – No-deal Brexit ‘catastrophic’
UK farmers and landowners have written to MPs to warn of the disastrous impact of a no-deal Brexit on food supplies, as reported by the Guardian. They expressed three main...
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03 Dec 2018
The post-Brexit countryside plans
Five hundred farmers and rural businesses met in Westminster on Thursday 28 November to discuss post-Brexit countryside plans with Environment Secretary Michael Gove, as reported by the Darlington and Stockton...
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12 Nov 2018
Leaked memo reveals Defra Brexit panic
A leaked memo sent on 22nd October shows plans for the emergency reshuffle of staff to support work in the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to help...
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22 Oct 2018
Post Brexit farm subsidies under review
ITV News reports on the announcement that the Government is to launch an independent review of how farm funding will be distributed between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland after...
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15 Oct 2018
Brexit impacts on the countryside
The Financial Times reported on the possibilities for the British countryside post-Brexit. The article laments that the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) used lucrative incentives to encourage British farmers to...
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01 Oct 2018
New food supplies minister
The Guardian and several trade outlets reported on the appointment of David Rutley MP as a junior minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). The Government...
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10 Sep 2018
Footpaths access post-Brexit
A number of local and national papers reported that the walking charity, Ramblers, has urged that farmers to use their taxpayer subsidies to maintain footpaths on their land after Brexit....
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21 Mar 2018
Workshop on rural policy post-Brexit
TWO prominent politicians will discuss the future of rural policy at a special University of Gloucestershire workshop. Shadow Defra minister David Drew and MEP Julie Girling are among those attending the event...
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13 Sep 2017
Somewheres and Anywheres
A think piece by Dr Gary Bosworth (University of Lincoln) on David Goodhart’s best-seller The Road to Somewhere; The new tribes shaping British politics” in light of his presentation to...
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