Single farm payments are fees not subsidies - Rooker

"People have to be told that our countryside is man-made," Lord Rooker told a conference in London organised jointly by the NFU and Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

"If farmers do not look after it, it will disappear. The fees paid – I don’t use the word subsidies – are a legitimate public expense."

But farmers needed to explain the connection to society if they were to continue getting support, Lord Rooker told delegates at the Celebrations and Challenges conference on the future of farming.

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Source: FWi

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