How Truss’s post-Brexit farming policy descended into chaos
by Helena Horton Environment reporter from World news | The Guardian on (#647YQ)
Rumours rife as farmers fear PM plans U-turn on financial subsidy measures to improve environment
The chaos in the English countryside began with the click of a civil servant's mouse. At the end of last week, farmers who had been working with the government on environmental subsidy schemes saw that their regular meetings about it had been removed from their online diaries without warning.
This appeared to hint at what had been feared - that the new post-Brexit farming subsidy scheme was in danger of being scrapped.
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