Blair accused
3 May 2002
Blair accused
TONY Blair has been accused of "five years of failing farmers" in a letter from shadow agriculture minister Ann Winterton.
The letter, sent to the Prime Minister on the fifth anniversary of the Labour Partys 1997 election victory (May 1), accused the government of neither caring about or understanding rural Britain.
Mrs Winteron said it was time for some real action. *
rather than "weasel words and talking shops".
"It is essential that profitability is restored to farming because otherwise, by the time of the next general election, British agriculture as we have known it will be beyond saving," she said.
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