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Alicia Kearns - Conservative candidate on the General Election: "If we do not treat food security as a national security issue, we will let the people of our great nation down"

Ms Kearns, standing for election as a candidate for Rutland, Stamford, and the South Kesteven and Harborough Villages, told Farmers Guardian readers protecting the rural way of life and standing up for farmers mattered ahead of the General Election

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"The word rural does not feature even once in Labour's manifesto, and they spare only 87 words on farming." (Alicia Kearns)
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"The word rural does not feature even once in Labour's manifesto, and they spare only 87 words on farming." (Alicia Kearns)

Sadly, farming is too often treated as a parochial issue, the preserve of rural communities, leaving it absent from the national conversation at election time. This threatens our collective security....

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