Tory leader says ‘we sometimes need to have tough words’ and that everyone working for party ‘needs to be fully dedicated to the mission’
The Conservative party has described the land use framework plan for England announced by the government last week as “food lunacy”.
During environment questions in the Commons, Robbie Moore, a shadow environment minister, said:
When we thought it couldn’t get any worse, the Government roll out their latest attack on our farming community and UK food production, setting the direction that they want to replace food production with around 20% of farmland being dedicated to solar farms, tree planting, biodiversity offsetting and wildlife habitats, all to meet green targets.
The proposed figures are astonishing, with well over a million hectares being proposed to be taken out of food production by this Government, and the economic analysis already predicts that well over 12,000 farms will be lost within a generation as a result of this government’s policies …
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Author : Andrew Sparrow
Publish date : 2025-02-06 10:20:00
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