James Evans - Welsh Conservatives on the General Election: "There has been a cloud hanging over the farming industry for a long time"

Welsh Conservative Shadow Rural Affairs Minister James Evans has written a blog for Farmers Guardian outlining his party's backing for the farming community, agriculture's vital role to Wales and Labour's Sustainable Farming Scheme

Chris Brayford
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"A community that has felt abandoned and ignored for decades have now said enough is enough." (@JamesEvansMS)
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"A community that has felt abandoned and ignored for decades have now said enough is enough." (@JamesEvansMS)

Labour have bought themselves time with the Sustainable Farming Scheme delay, but what happens now? With the news that the deeply unpopular SFS has been paused, there was an initial sigh of relief across...

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