Scrapping EU rules won’t save UK farming. Supporting small farmers will | Nick Dearden
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Andrea Leadsom blames the EU for 'holding us back'. But it's encouraging agribusiness to flourish at the expense of small farmers that must change
It's not hard to warm up an audience by promising to scrap irritating European regulations. That's exactly what Andrea Leadsom, the environment secretary, focused on at the Oxford Farming Conference yesterday morning, promising to ditch "rules that hold us back". Top of Leadsom's list are EU billboards that spoil the countryside, and greater "common sense" on what constitutes "a bush, a hedge or a tree".
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