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18.10.2021
18 October 2021 Below is an RSN review of last week's rural related politics as well as a look forward to the week ahead: Last week in politics (11 October - 17 October) On Monday...
04.10.2021
Farmers Weekly reports that the Labour Party will create a minister for rural affairs in every Government department in attempt to pinch Conservative voters in the countryside The pledge was made by shadow DEFRA secretary Luke Pollard MP at...
14.09.2020
Labour List and Devon Live report on the Countryside Alliance’s allegations that the Labour Party’s has a so-called ‘rural problem’ The Alliance has published a report tracking how the party has experienced successively worse election results among countryside voters,...
30.09.2019
A polling expert has advised the Labour Party to target EU remainers to win back support in rural areas Joe Twyman, of polling firm Deltapoll, was speaking at a National Farmers Union fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference...
30.07.2019
Farming UK has outlined Boris Johnson’s stance on rural issues following his appointment as prime minister In an interview with the Countryside Alliance, he pledged to make more funds available to address imbalances that affect rural communities and added...
30.07.2019
The Telegraph covers comments made by the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, in which he claimed that the Conservatives are no longer the party of rural communities Corbyn, speaking last week at the Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival before it was announced...
30.07.2019
The Guardian reports on the appointment of Boris Johnson’s new Environment Secretary, Theresa Villiers The paper argues that Villiers has a ‘weak’ track record on the environment and is ‘strong’ on free trade. Previous Environment Secretary Michael Gove was...
28.05.2019
The BBC reports on the results of last week’s European Parliament elections, in which the UK elected a total of 73 MEPs. The Brexit Party won 29 seats, followed by the Liberal Democrats with 16. The Conservatives and...
25.03.2019
Shadow Minister for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs David Drew MP has written a piece in the Stroud News and Journal about the ‘challenges’ of living in a rural area. He wrote that ‘rural affairs have slipped down...
25.03.2019
Rachel Reeves, MP for Leeds West, has written an article in the New Statesman arguing that ‘for too long wealth and power has been concentrated in our cities’. She says that although rural areas, ex-industrial and coastal towns may...
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