Tag Archives: Andrea Leadsom
Recycle and Re-use: Andrea Leadsom has nothing new to say about the Environment, Food or Farming.
Secretary of State for the Environment Andrea Leadsom, like so many of her Cabinet colleagues, has been missing from this General Election campaign. It’s all been about the PM as President, President May. Leadsom did surface briefly on Monday to … Continue reading
Time to rename Defra the Ministry of Agriculture and Fieldsports
While all talk of the Greenest Government Ever (anyone remember that?) has been quietly abandoned, another question arises. Is the fieldsports lobby getting unprecedented access to ministers in the Environment department and are the Environment NGOs being squeezed out of … Continue reading
Jam Tomorrow
Feeling rather sorry for myself for having succumbed to, what for me is a nasty cold (verging on man flu), I was restricted yesterday to watching the Tory Party Conference. What gems and treasures lay strewn across its shiny (though … Continue reading
Andrea Leadsom: “farming.. is a bedrock of.. the environment”. Err…
New Defra Secretary of State Andrea Leadsom has sent a statement to Farmers Weekly, the farming newspaper. Although the paper has not published the full statement, here are the quotes it uses: “Nothing is more important than the food we … Continue reading
New head of Defra Andrea Leadsom has already laid out her plans for farm subsidy reform.
The dust is settling following the brutal excision of the Cameron/Osborne cliques from power. One Department has been knocked down, or split asunder – the Department for Energy and Climate Change. Energy has gone to Business and Industry, Climate Change … Continue reading
The Story so Far……
There’s a momentary quiet as this morning’s political interviews fade into memory – or are sliced and diced and served up as vine’s or gifs on twitter. What have we learnt? Jeremy Corbyn’s survived another 12 hours, though he may … Continue reading
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