Five issues Starmer can address for rural voters

摘要

Next week, Labour leader Keir Starmer will make his big appeal to farmers at the 2023 NFU conference in Birmingham. Here are five things I think rural voters might want to hear him address:1. Maintain or improve the promise of E2.4bn for farmers. The "public money for public goods" approach allows farmers to maintain their levels of food production in a way that is less damaging to the environment. But what about index-linking CountrysideStewardship Plus payments to inflation, so we don't have to keep reviewing costings?