Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Steve Reed and Rupert Lowe

Thursday 14th November 2024 Commons Chamber

[Rupert Lowe (Great Yarmouth) (Reform)]

This week, John McTernan, an adviser to Tony Blair, publicly stated that farming should be treated in the same way that Margaret Thatcher treated the miners, and that it was an industry the country could “do without”. As a farmer, I find this incorrect, offensive and deluded. Does the Minister agree?

[Steve Reed]

Yes.