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Conservatives vow to come back fighting at the next General Election

"We have lost experienced farming MPs but this is now an opportunity to build back again"

Chris Brayford
clock • 3 min read
"Labour do not have a mandate to run the countryside. 87 words was all they had to offer farmers"
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"Labour do not have a mandate to run the countryside. 87 words was all they had to offer farmers"

A farmer in Devon has vowed the Conservative Party could make a fighting comeback at the next General Election. James Wright, who is the South West chair and policy director at the Conservative Rural...

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