LIFE AFTER DEFRA

摘要

Former farm minister Jim Paice maintains a keen interest in agriculture despite losing his job last autumn. Areplica wartime poster bearing the legend "Keep Calm and Carry On" hangs on the wall in Jim Pake's par-liamentary office. It is a motto that has stood him in good stead since the MP tor south-east Cambridgeshire lost his job as farm minister last September. He might no longer hold the post he wanted for so long, but Sirjim believes he still has much to otter UK agriculture. And nine months after his sudden departure from DEFRA, he feels the time is right to start rebuilding his profile. "It's time to put aside what's happened in the past and move on," he says. "My interests and concerns about food and farming are as strong as they ever were and more people arc asking me what I think on various issues. So 1 thought it was time I raised my head above the parapet."