For more than a decade, this Government has ignored, derided and abused the countryside and those who live and work in it. Labour has regarded it only as an area of recreation and leisure for the urban masses, while viewing the farming community as a mixture of silver-spooned toffs and bucolic straw-sucking bumpkins (of which I am proud to be one). Now, all of a sudden, with Britain broke, unemployment rising and our population heading inexorably towards 70million, the Government has suddenly realised that farming and food production are actually quite important, contributing £80billion to the economy and employing 3.6million people. That's why Hilary Benn yesterday launched a government campaign at the Oxford Farming Conference to boost Britain's self-sufficiency in food.
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