Dame Minette Batters calls for 'radical reset' in Defra

The former NFU president said Defra did not have the ‘commercial expertise and acumen' needed right now to appropriately address food security

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Dame Minette Batters calls for 'radical reset' in Defra

The former NFU president has called for a ‘radical reset' in Defra, criticising the historic lack of ‘commercial expertise' in the department to appropriately deal with the threat of food security...

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