Farmer who played key role in disrupting PM at a Milton Keynes housing development

A chorus of tractor horns irked Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer so much he went on television to tell the public the Government had a choice to either lower NHS waiting lists or give farmers a tax break

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Andy Corner is an arable farmer from Oxfordshire. Like many farmers across Britain, he is fighting and protesting not only to save the future of his farm, but also to ensure it can be passed onto the next generation. He said: "We will be heard. Farmers will not be pushed around and they will keep coming back time and time again because we will not back down."
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Andy Corner is an arable farmer from Oxfordshire. Like many farmers across Britain, he is fighting and protesting not only to save the future of his farm, but also to ensure it can be passed onto the next generation. He said: "We will be heard. Farmers will not be pushed around and they will keep coming back time and time again because we will not back down."

'We just want the Prime Minister to listen', were the words from a farmer who was involved in a recent protest in Milton Keynes. Andy Corner, a farmer from Somerton in Oxfordshire, said just over...

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