Green and pleasant land? What Brexit could mean for farming and habitats

Michael Holder
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Will the UK maintain strong environmental protections alongside support for sustainable farming post-Brexit?

If 52 per cent of the voting population's decision to leave the European Union was at least in part precipitated by patriotic fervour and a desire to wrest sovereignty back to Westminster, then stronger...

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