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Farron Challenges Minister Over Farming Future

South Lakes MP Tim Farron has challenged Farming Minister George Eustice MP to back Britain's farmers by committing to the single market and ruling out a cut in farm support payments, ahead of a speech on Wednesday to the Northern Farming Conference.

7 Nov 2016
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The Observer view on the high court ruling on Brexit and parliament

The judgment is not about sabotaging Britain's EU exit. It's about respecting democracy and getting the best deal possible It has become painfully clear since June's vote to leave the European Union that Theresa May's government and its supporters have little or no idea where the country is heading. Lacking a plan or a shared philosophy, they are united by an arbitrary and destructive rush to the exit. Their hysterical reaction to last week's unanimous high court ruling that Britain cannot quit the EU without parliament's consent also reveals extraordinary ignorance about where we, as a country, have come from. It is dismaying that those who campaigned so passionately to reclaim British sovereignty appear not to have the first idea about their country's long-established constitutional arrangements.

7 Nov 2016
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