From the editor: Sheep turn their backs on Prime Minister, but have rural voters?

This week from Farmers Guardian's editor Olivia Midgley

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From the editor: Sheep turn their backs on Prime  Minister, but have rural voters?

Despite videos of sheep giving the Prime Minister the cold shoulder almost breaking the internet this week, Rishi Sunak was anything but sheepish when he addressed the farmers who had gathered to see him...

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